Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contextualizing Meaning
1.1 The Indeterminacy of Meaning: “Unnatural Doubts”
and “Theoretical Diagnosis”
1.2 Wittgenstein as a Theoretical Diagnostician:
Overcoming the Temptations of Reification and
Decontextualization
1.3 Contextual Determinacy: Wittgenstein and Dewey
on Meaning and Agreement
1.4 Meaning in Context: Semantic Stability and
Semantic Change
1.5 Sustaining Agreement in Action: Normalcy and
Eccentricity
1.6 A View from Elsewhere
2. Contextualizing Identity
2.1 The Hegelian Connection: Identity, Difference,
and Polyphony
2.1.a The Dialectics of Recognition
2.1.b To Be and Not to Be: This Mess Called
My Identity
2.2 The Flourishing of Voices and Their Domestication
3. Contextualizing Agency
3.1 Fighting Philosophical Myths about Discursive Agency
3.2 On Having a Voice: Uncontrollability, Polyphony, and
a Hybrid View of Agency and Responsibility
3.3 The Scandal of Our Agency: Agency without
Sovereignty and the Possibility of Transgression
4. Speaking from Elsewhere: Silence, Exclusion, and Marginality
4.1 Contextualism and the Hermeneutics of Silence
4.2 Making Sense of Radical Silences and Exclusions: A Polyphonic Perspective
4.3 Spaces of Intelligibility and Marginality
4.4 Speaking from the Margins
Notes
References
Index
