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The Language Animal - The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity (Hardcover)
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The Language Animal - The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity (Hardcover)
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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 beings developed to encode and
communicate information. In The Language Animal, Taylor explains
that this view neglects the crucial role language plays in shaping
the very thought it purports to express. Language does not merely
describe; it constitutes meaning and fundamentally shapes human
experience. The human linguistic capacity is not something we
innately possess. We first learn language from others, and,
inducted into the shared practice of speech, our individual selves
emerge out of the conversation. Taylor expands the thinking of the
German Romantics Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt into a theory of
linguistic holism. Language is intellectual, but it is also enacted
in artistic portrayals, gestures, tones of voice, metaphors, and
the shifts of emphasis and attitude that accompany speech. Human
language recognizes no boundary between mind and body. In
illuminating the full capacity of “the language animal,” Taylor
sheds light on the very question of what it is to be a human being.
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