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Locke, language and early-modern philosophy /
In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy, and presents an analysis of John Locke's critique of words. By examining a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiq...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Ideas in context ;
76. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy, and presents an analysis of John Locke's critique of words. By examining a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiquity to the late seventeenth century, Dr Dawson explains why language caused anxiety in various writers. Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy demonstrates that developments in philosophy, in conjunction with weaknesses in linguistic theory, resulted in serious concerns about the capacity of words to refer to the world, the stability of meaning, and the duplicitous power of words themselves. Dr Dawson shows that language so fixated all manner of early-modern authors because it was seen as an obstacle to both knowledge and society. She thereby uncovers a novel story about the problem of language in philosophy, and in the process reshapes our understanding of early-modern epistemology, morality and politics. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-348) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511290183 0511290187 9780511288944 0511288948 0511289588 9780511289583 1107165482 9781107165489 1280916990 9781280916991 9786610916993 6610916993 0511321899 9780511321894 0511490488 9780511490484 0511288263 9780511288265 9781107403024 1107403022 |