Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy (Ideas in Context)

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Hannah Dawson

页数:378

出版时间:2007-02-28

价格:USD 90.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521852715

图书标签:近代早期语言洛克图哲学Modernity'sCanonGreat_Britain*

In a powerful contribution to the history of ideas, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early-modern philosophy, and in conclusion presents a groundbreaking 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 such intense unease to writers such as Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Spinoza, and Boyle. Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy demonstrates that new developments in philosophy, in conjunction with weaknesses in linguistic theory, resulted in serious concerns about the reality and stability of meaning, and the duplicitous autonomy of words themselves. Dr Dawson shows that language so fixated all manner of early-modern philosophers and seeped on to the pages of texts about nature, human understanding, morality, religion and politics, because it was seen as a problem, as an obstacle to both knowledge and society.