Avi Lifschitz

Gebundenes Buch

Language and Enlightenment

The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century

Beschreibung

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'.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

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