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Made With Words

Paperback • 2009 • English

Made With Words

By Philip Pettit

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About the book

Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed t...Show more

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9780691143255

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Made With Words

Format

Paperback

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