The Material Word : Some theories of language and its limits

I Introduction: the language of mastery 1. Interrupting the 'I' 2. Language and ideology in Althuser II The limits of language 3. Wittgenstein's two languages 4. Kafka: the poet of black and white III Language and thought 5. Husserl's two phenomenolgies 6. Heidegger: from letters to being, or from being to letters? IV LAnguage and society 7. The essentialism of ethnomethodology 8. Codes in conversation: the speech of Bernstein and Labdov V The practice of ordinary language 9. What Austin does with words 10. Locke's text of property VI Language, sign and text 11. The significance of Barthes 12. The blood of dreams: Robbe-Grillet project VII Conclusion: the mastery of language 13. Textuality, sexuality, economy 14. The competence model and its limits