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The Language Animal

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

The Language Animal

By Charles Taylor

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About the book

In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process.For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist tradition--Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs--assert that language is a tool that human being...Show more

Philosophy of language

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ISBN

9780674660205

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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The Language Animal

Format

Hardcover

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