书名: Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy (Ideas in Context)
作者: Hannah Dawson (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 2, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521852714
ISBN-13: 978-0521852715
Book Description
In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, first published in 2007, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy, and presents an analysis of John Locke's critique of words. By examining a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiquity to the late seventeenth century, Dr Dawson explains why language caused anxiety in various writers. Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy demonstrates that developments in philosophy, in conjunction with weaknesses in linguistic theory, resulted in serious concerns about the capacity of words to refer to the world, the stability of meaning, and the duplicitous power of words themselves. Dr Dawson shows that language so fixated all manner of early-modern authors because it was seen as an obstacle to both knowledge and society. She thereby uncovers a novel story about the problem of language in philosophy, and in the process reshapes our understanding of early-modern epistemology, morality and politics.
Hannah Dawson is lecturer in history and philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
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作者: Hannah Dawson (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (July 2, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521852714
ISBN-13: 978-0521852715
Book Description
In a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, first published in 2007, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy, and presents an analysis of John Locke's critique of words. By examining a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiquity to the late seventeenth century, Dr Dawson explains why language caused anxiety in various writers. Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy demonstrates that developments in philosophy, in conjunction with weaknesses in linguistic theory, resulted in serious concerns about the capacity of words to refer to the world, the stability of meaning, and the duplicitous power of words themselves. Dr Dawson shows that language so fixated all manner of early-modern authors because it was seen as an obstacle to both knowledge and society. She thereby uncovers a novel story about the problem of language in philosophy, and in the process reshapes our understanding of early-modern epistemology, morality and politics.
- Was the first comprehensive account of early-modern philosophy of language to examine such a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material
- Was the first book to explain why language was the object of anxiety for all manner of early-modern philosophers
- Reveals the devastating impact of Locke's philosophy of language on his epistemology and political theory
Hannah Dawson is lecturer in history and philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
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