Avi Lifschitz

Language and Enlightenment

The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. Argues that awareness of the historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called 'Counter-Enlightenment'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780199661664
• ISBN-10: 0199661669
• Artikelnr.: 35483934

Autorenporträt

Avi Lifschitz is Lecturer in Early Modern European History at University College London (UCL), and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin. He is co-editor of Epicurus in the Enlightenment (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* 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