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Language and 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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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st paperback ed. |
| Series: | Oxford historical monographs
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=CyW8jgEACAAJ&dq=ISBN+9780198777649&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWmJKR4dHYAhXKOI8KHaJvBp0Q6AEIJjAA http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1403/2012464899-t.html |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The mutual emergence of language, mind, and society: an enlightenment debate
- 2. Symbolic cognition from Leibniz to the 1760s: theology, aesthetics, and history
- 3. The evolution and genius of language: debates in the Berlin Academy
- 4. J. D. Michaelis on language and vowel points: from confessional controversy to naturalism
- 5. A point of convergence and new departures: the 1759 contest on language and opinions
- 6. Language and cultural identity: the controversy over Prémontval's Préservatif
- 7. Tackling the naturalistic conundrum: instincts and conjectural history to 1771
- 8. Conclusion and a glimpse into the future.