Language and Enlightenment the Berlin debates of the eighteenth century

This text highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. It argues that awareness of the historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called 'Count...

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Main Author: Lifschitz, Avi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
Series:Oxford historical monographs / Oxford historical monographs
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This text highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. It argues that awareness of the historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called 'Counter-Enlightenment'
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780191751653