". . . a more compelling reading of Kant than any I have ever seen." —David Farrell Krell In this provocative book, Alphonso Lingis argues that not only our t

The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and

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This volume examines several aspects of the syntax of imperative clauses in English and in a variety of other Germanic languages in the context of the challenge