What to Read After How to Do Things with Words
Readers who loved How to Do Things with Words by J. L. Austin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where How to Do Things with Words is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after How to Do Things with Words
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Word and Object
Truth and Method
The Concept of Mind
Excitable Speech
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
Metaphors We Live By
Limited Inc
Must We Mean What We Say?
Language and Symbolic Power
Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
Course in general linguistics
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
The Quest for Certainty
Phenomenology of Perception
Naming and Necessity
Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
On Certainty
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
After Virtue
State of Exception
Différence et répétition
Totality and Infinity