From Plato to Panini to Levinas The Problem of Language for Philosophy and Theology

Introduction: The Cratylus and Its Problems 1. The Problem of Defining Terms 2. The Issue of ¿¿¿¿¿-¿¿¿¿¿ 3. The idea of Etymology amd Etymologies in the Cratylus 4. Characters and Contexts in and beyond the Cratylus: from Prodikos to the Peloponnesian Wars 5. From the ¿¿¿¿¿¿ at the End of the Cratylus to Panini 6. Language Study and Linguistic Thinking from the Stoics to the End of the Nineteenth Century 7. From Wittgenstein to the Cratylus 8. From Saussure to Barthes: Langue, Langage, Parole, Signs, Semiology and Cratylean Concepts 9. The Cratylus in the Passage from Derrida's Deconstruction to Levinas' Ethical Conundrum 10. Ethical and Linguistic Issues from Aurobindo to Giri Conclusions: Language and Ethics from Within the Cratylus to Beyond the Theological Implications of the Holocaust