Language & enlightenment : the Berlin debates of the eighteenth century /

What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilisation without language? Such were the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates on the joint evolution of language, mind, and culture. 'Language and Enlightenment' highli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lifschitz, Avi, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Colección:Oxford historical monographs.
Temas:
1700-1799
Enlightenment > Germany.
Siècle des Lumières > Allemagne.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Berlin (Germany) > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Germany
Germany > Berlin
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The mutual emergence of language, mind, and society : an enlightenment debate
  • Symbolic cognition from Leibniz to the 1760s : theology, aesthetics, and history
  • The evolution and genius of language : debates in the Berlin Academy
  • J.D. Michaelis on language and vowel points : from confessional controversy to naturalism
  • A point of convergence and new departures : the 1759 contest on language and opinions
  • Language and cultural identity : the controversy over Prémontval's Préservatif
  • Tackling the naturalistic conundrum : instincts and conjectural history to 1771
  • Conclusion and a glimpse into the future.

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