Language, culture and cognition from Descartes to Lewes / Timo Kaitaro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaitaro, Timo, author.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 375.

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Value Inquiry Book Series ; 375

Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2022

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy--History.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume describes how the significance of language and culture in forming human cognition has been understood from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The natural and artificial body in Cartesian philosophy

Hobbes and the citizens of the realm of truth

Locke : combining ideas with a little help from words

Leibniz, Wolff, and symbolic cognition in the German tradition

Daniel Defoe and the wild boy

Hume and the artificial in human understanding

Condillac and Diderot on the role of artificial signs in cognition

La Mettrie : man as an artefact

The nature of morality : Diderot, Helvétius and Rousseau

Maupertuis and the debates in the Berlin Academy

Herder : from the language of a silent loner to human perfection

Hamann and the primacy of language and tradition

The idéologues : the semiotics and physiology of culture

The divine origins of language

Back to the institutions of nature : Gall and Spurzheim

Humboldt : language and the creation of national character

G.H. Lewes and symbolic thought

Conclusions : from the institutions of nature to history and culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kaitaro, Timo Language, Culture and Cognition from Descartes to Lewes

ISBN:

9789004507241

OCLC:

1302598613

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004507241 DOI