Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment

A contribution to the history of the relationship between language theory and ideology

By: Ulrich Ricken, Robert Norton (Translator)

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Hardcover | 2 December 1993 | Edition Number 1

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300 Pages

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"Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment" treats the development of linguistic thought from Descartes to Degerando as both a part of and a determining factor in the emergence of modern consciousness. Through his careful analyses of works by the most influential thinkers of the time, author Ulrich Ricken demonstrates that the central significance of language in the philosophy of the enlightenment is how it reflected and acted upon contemporary understanding of humanity as a whole.
Although primarily focused on French thought between 1650 and 1800, the author discusses contemporary developments in England, Germany and Italy and covers an unusually broad range of writers and ideas, including Leibniz, Wolff, Herder and Humboldt. This study places the history of language philosophy within the broader context of the history of ideas, aesthetics and historical anthropology and will be of interest to scholars working in these disciplines.

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