Language and the History of Thought
Published on 7. December 1995
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Hardback
272 pages
978-1-878822-29-1 (ISBN)
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17 essays discussing the role of language in the history of western thought.
Since Adam before the Fall named the animals by true insight into their essences, language has never ceased to be the pivot of efforts to understand human nature and our capacity to feel at home in the twin worlds of nature and society. This volume brings together seventeen essays that have appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideasover the last thirty years. Their common theme is the role of language in aspects of the history of western thought from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. The essays cover questions in epistemology, religion, anthropology, lexicography, evolution, the theory of signs, and the origin of language.
Contributors: FRANK L. BORCHARDT, MARGRETA DE GRAZIA, SIDONIE CLAUSS, JAN MIEL, THOMAS C.SINGER, VICTOR ANTHONY RUDOWSKI, JULES PAUL SEIGEL, JAMES McLAVERTY, J.R. KNOWLSON, STEPHEN K. LAND, LIA FORMIGARI, H.J. JACKSON, W. JAY REEDY, V.P. BYNACK, CYMBRE QUINCYRAUB, MICHAEL SPRINKER, S. MORRIS ENGEL.
Since Adam before the Fall named the animals by true insight into their essences, language has never ceased to be the pivot of efforts to understand human nature and our capacity to feel at home in the twin worlds of nature and society. This volume brings together seventeen essays that have appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideasover the last thirty years. Their common theme is the role of language in aspects of the history of western thought from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. The essays cover questions in epistemology, religion, anthropology, lexicography, evolution, the theory of signs, and the origin of language.
Contributors: FRANK L. BORCHARDT, MARGRETA DE GRAZIA, SIDONIE CLAUSS, JAN MIEL, THOMAS C.SINGER, VICTOR ANTHONY RUDOWSKI, JULES PAUL SEIGEL, JAMES McLAVERTY, J.R. KNOWLSON, STEPHEN K. LAND, LIA FORMIGARI, H.J. JACKSON, W. JAY REEDY, V.P. BYNACK, CYMBRE QUINCYRAUB, MICHAEL SPRINKER, S. MORRIS ENGEL.
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English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
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Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
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Height: 579 mm
Width: 386 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-878822-29-1 (9781878822291)
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Etymology in tradition and in the northern Renaissance, Frank L. Borchardt; the secularization of language in the 17th century, Margreta de Grazia; John Wilkins's "Essay Toward a Real Character" - its place in the 17th-century episteme, Sidonie Clauss; Pascal, Port-Royal and Cartesian Linguistics, Jan Miel; hieroglyphs, real characters and the idea of natural language in English 17th-century thought, Thomas C. Singer; the theory of signs in the 18th century, Victor Anthony Rudowski; the Enlightenment and the evolution of a language of signs in France and England, Jules Paul Siegel; from definition to explanation - Locke's influence on Johnson's Dictionary, James McLaverty; the ideal languages of Veiras, Foigny and Tyssot de Patot, J.R. Knowlson; universalism and relativism - a philosophical problem of translation in the 18th century, Stephen K. Land; language and society in the late 18th century, Lia Formigari; Coleridge, etymology and etymologic, H.J. Jackson; language, counter-revolution and the "two cultures" - Bonald's traditionalist scientism, W. Jay Reedy; Noah Webster's linguistic thought and the ideas of an American national culture, V.P. Bynack; Robert Chambers and William Whewell - a 19th-century debate over the origin of language, Cymbre Quincy Raub; Gerard Manley Hopkins on the origin of language, Michael Sprinker; an early Nietzsche fragment on language, S. Morris Engel.