Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy

Klappentext Explains why language caused unease to writers such as Montaigne! Bacon! Descartes! Hobbes! and Pascal. Zusammenfassung Exploring the astonishing preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy! and culminating in an analysis of Locke's critique of words! Hannah Dawson examines a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiquity to the late seventeenth century. The result is a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Introduction; Part I. Language in the Trivium: 1. Language in logic; 2. Language in grammar; 3. Language in rhetoric; Part II. Philosophical Developments of the Problem of Language: 4. The relationships between language, mind and world; 5. Semantic instability: a containable threat; 6. Under cover of sensible and powerful words; Part III. Locke on Language: 7. Words signify ideas alone; 8. Semantic instability: an inherent imperfection; 9. A life of their own; 10. Locke in the face of language; Bibliographies.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Dawson, Hannah (University of Edinburgh) Dawson, Dawson Hannah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9781107403024
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40302-4
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Philosophy of Language, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Language, HISTORY / Social History