This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of J.L. Austin's philosophy. It opens new ways of thinking about ethics and other contemporary issues in the wake of Austin's philosophical work.
Niklas Forsberg is Head of Research at the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He is the author of Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse (2012).
"This book provides the first comprehensive study of Austin's philosophy as a whole. It is remarkably useful and welcome, at a crucial moment of re-evaluation of ordinary language philosophy as an actual alternative to mainstream analytic philosophy."
Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France