Semantičke strukture filozofije: postavljanje problema
The Semantic Structures of Philosophy: Posing the Problem

Summary/Abstract: The central aim of the inquiry begun in this text is to reach a semantic characterisation of philosophical discourse, that is, to describe the »language«, or the code, of philosophy. This inquiry contains an examination of the views on the nature and purpose of philosophy held by Immanuel Kant and Ludwig Wittgenstein, but many other philosophers, semioticians, linguists and literary theorists are brought into the discussion. In the first part of the text, the view is expressed that, with regard to the peculiar phenomena that characterize philosophy (for example, the absence of »results«, as opposed to science), a theory of philosophy itself is needed, but such that would not itself be caught in the same kind of discourse. Then some methodological restrictions are introduced: mainly, that the »philosophy« to be dealt with is the classical continental philosophy, which is percieved as a body of texts. The aim of the inquiry is then formulated as the description of the code by which these texts are organized; the method of the inquiry is specified as a deductive-hypothetical one.

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