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Description Subject Area: Politics This course considers the relationship between language and politics in two ways. It is concerned , firstly with the the conduct of politics as a particular use of language, examining such issues as the meaning of 'justice', 'power', 'sovereignty', 'national interest', 'national security' and so on. Politics, as an activity is carried out in large part through speech and writing, and people often see politics as involving the 'abuse' of language by politicians and other people, so this issue is important. In addition, however, the course will examine the way in which language is used in the academic study of politics, and whether standard ideas about studying society and politics 'objectively' and 'scientifically' are linguistically and philosophically 'naive' in some way. The ideas of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein will be used extensively in both parts of the course.
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