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'.
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'.
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
* 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
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