Kant on language / edited by Luigi Filieri, Konstantin Pollok.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Filieri, Luigi, 1988- editor.

Pollok, Konstantin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdon ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Kant had thoughts on language, but his account of language is not explicit and cannot be found in any dedicated section of his works, so it needs to be philosophically reconstructed. The chapters in this volume investigate Kant's views on language from unique perspectives. They demonstrate that Kant's notions of thinking, knowing, communicating, and acting have implications for the philosophy of language: from the problem of empirical concept-formation to the categorial structure of experience, from the exhibition of aesthetic ideas to the role of analogies and metaphors, from poetry as the art of language to the moral relevance of rhetoric and the problem of persuasion, and from the source of Kant's philosophical vocabulary to the role of language in defining 'humanity'. The volume offers a new and distinctive interpretive context in which Kant's approach to language can be critically appreciated.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Contents

Contributors

Abbreviations

Introduction

I.1 Framing the Question

I.2 Overview of the Chapters

Part I Linguistic Implications of Kant's Thought

Chapter 1 Kant on Language: Semiotics and Heuristics

1.1 A Semiotic Point of View on Language

1.2 The Properties of Words

1.3 Another Kind of Signs: Symbols

1.4 Heuristics

Chapter 2 The Rise of Empirical Meaning

2.1 Thought and Language

2.2 Word and Concept

2.3 Acquiring Content

2.4 Designation and Its Conditions

Chapter 3 Kant and the Idea of a Language in 'the Senses'

3.1 Introduction: Language, Thought, and the Rest of the Mind

3.2 Preliminary Exposition of Conditions for Linguisticality

3.3 The Idea of a Language 'in' Sensibility

3.4 Further Guidance from Kant's Historical Context

3.5 From the 'Language' of Sensibility to Its 'Interpretation'

Chapter 4 Grammar, Categories, and the Structure of Experience

4.1 Grammar and the Categories

4.2 Interlude: Kant, Hamann, and Herder

4.3 Implications

4.4 Conclusion

Chapter 5 A Liberated Language: Kant on Hypotyposis, Symbol, and Analogy

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Some Basic Theses about Language in Kant

5.3 Some Additional Premises

5.4 Section 59: Symbol and Hypotyposis

5.5 Conclusion

Chapter 6 Expressing the Unnamable: Poetic Language, Humanity, and Sociability in Kant's Third Critique

6.1 Communicability, Sociability, and Art

6.2 Poetry and the Unnamable

6.3 Poetry, Sociability, and Community

6.4 To Conclude

Chapter 7 Kant's Metaphors and Analogies

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Kant on Analogies

7.3 Language and Expression

7.4 Kant's Analogies

7.5 Conclusion

Part II Historical and Philosophical Implications.

Chapter 8 Kant's Vocabulary in Context: Eighteenth-Century Canons for Building a Philosophical Language

8.1 The Problems of Language

8.2 Tetens

8.3 Kant's Revolutionary Method and the Building of a Philosophical Lexicon

8.4 Concluding Remarks on Kant's Practice

Chapter 9 Cassirer on Kant and W. v. Humboldt on Language: ''Die Freiheit und Selbständigkeit des geistigen Tuns''

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Kant's Alleged Disregard of Language

9.3 W. v. Humboldt's Philosophy of Language

9.4 Kant's and Humboldt's Influence on Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture

9.5 Conclusion

Chapter 10 Anthropology and the Deaf and Dumb: Investigating Kant's Sources

10.1 The Expression/Communication-Paradigm and the Pre-Semiotic Picture of the Deaf's Mental Activity

10.2 The Issue of Deaf People's Capacities: From the Amplification-Paradigm to the Correlation-Paradigm

10.3 The Teachers of the Deaf at a Crossroads Between Paradigms

10.4 The Correlation-Paradigm after Condillac: On the Scope of the Kantian Arrival Point

10.5 Conclusion

Chapter 11 Not Those Who ''All Speak with Pictures'': Kant on Linguistic Abilities and Human Progress

11.1 Introduction

11.2 On Symbolic Language and Progress: Introducing a Controversy

11.3 Know Your Place in the World: The Point of Constructing an ''Oriental'' Linguistic Other

11.4 On Discursive Language as a sine qua non of Progress

11.5 Now What?

Chapter 12 Like Entering a Bright Room?: Kant and the Challenge of Lucidity

12.1 An Unfinished Work

12.2 Lucidity (Helligkeit)

12.3 Metaphors, Models, and Archetypes

12.4 Moral Character Formation as a Model for the Critique

12.5 Conclusion

Chapter 13 Kant and the Moral Challenges of Rhetoric

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Kant's Evolving Reading of Poetry and Rhetoric.

13.3 The Sources of Kant's Increasing Suspicion of Rhetoric

13.4 The Full - and Complex - Account of Rhetoric in Kant

Chapter 14 Kant's Inferentialism

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Kant's Version of Inferentialism

14.3 Hegel's Reception of Kant's Inferentialism

14.4 Wilhelm von Humboldt's Reception of Kant's Inferentialism

14.5 Conclusion

Chapter 15 Was Kant an Expressivist?: Should He Have Been?

15.1 Kant and Expressivism

15.2 The Case for Expressivist Reading of Kant in Outline

15.3 The Case for Expressivist Reading of Kant: Practical Thought

15.4 The Limits of an Expressivist Treatment of Practical Cognition

15.5 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Sep 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-23921-X

1-009-23922-8

1-009-23919-8

OCLC:

1540343711