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Language and Enlightenment - The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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Language and Enlightenment - The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain
self-consciousness and construct our civilization without language?
Such were the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates
on the joint evolution of language, mind, and culture. Language and
Enlightenment highlights the importance of language in the social
theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. While
focusing on the Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great, Avi
Lifschitz situates the Berlin debates within a larger temporal and
geographical framework. He 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'. Enlightenment authors of different
persuasions investigated whether speechless human beings could have
developed their language and society on their own. Such inquiries
usually pondered the difficult shift from natural signs like cries
and gestures to the artificial, articulate words of human language.
This transition from nature to artifice was mirrored in other
domains of inquiry, such as the origins of social relations,
inequality, the arts, and the sciences. By examining a wide variety
of authors - Leibniz, Wolff, Condillac, Rousseau, Michaelis, and
Herder, among others - Language and Enlightenment emphasises the
open and malleable character of the eighteenth-century Republic of
Letters. The language debates demonstrate that German theories of
culture and language were not merely a rejection of French ideas.
New notions of the genius of language and its role in cognition
were constructed through a complex interaction with cross-European
currents, especially via the prize contests at the Berlin Academy.
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