A book about language games can itself be a language game: With Language Games, the Frankfurt philosopher Martin Seel delivers an impressive plea for understanding the role of language within the human world through the equal diversity of its uses. Following this maxim, he utilizes various approaches to playing the game of language on his journey through the landscape of the philosophy of language: argumentation, narration, and improvisation, all while allowing different thinkers and philosophical traditions to enter into a dialogue with one another – from Herder to Humboldt to Wittgenstein, from romantic to analytical, pragmatistic, and phenomenological to deconstructive views. In doing so, he corrects their respective blind spots.
A virtuoso essay about "language games" that brings to mind the driving forces behind the life of language and how everyone leads this life is driven by it.
