Language and the History of Thought
Since Adam before the Fall named the animals by true insight into their essences, language has never ceased to be the pivot of efforts to understand human nature and our capacity to feel at home in the twin worlds of nature and society. This volume brings together seventeen essays that have appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideasover the last thirty years. Their common theme is the role of language in aspects of the history of western thought from the Renaissance to the nineteenth...
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17 essays discussing the role of language in the history of western thought.
AcknowledgementsIntroductionIEtymology in Tradition and in the Northern Renaissance1IIThe Secularization of Language in the Seventeenth Century16IIIJohn Wilkins' Essay Toward a Real Character: Its Place in the Seventeenth-Century Episteme27IVPascal, Port-Royal, and Cartesian Linguistics50VHieroglyphs, Real Characters, and the Idea of Natural Language in English Seventeenth-Century Thought61VIThe Theory of Signs in the Eighteenth Century83VIIThe Enlightenment and the Evolution of a Language of Signs in France and England91VIIIFrom Definition to Explanation: Locke's Influence on Johnson's Dictionary111IXThe Ideal Languages of Veiras, Foigny, and Tyssot de Patot129XUniversalism and Relativism: A Philosophical Problem of Translation in the Eighteenth Century139XILanguage and Society in the Late Eighteenth Century153XIIColeridge, Etymology and Etymologic171XIIILanguage, Counter-Revolution and the "Two Cultures": Bonald's Traditionalist Scientism185XIVNoah Webster's Linguistic Thought and the Idea of an American National Culture204XVRobert Chambers and William Whewell: A Nineteenth-Century Debate over the Origin of Language220XVIGerard Manley Hopkins on the Origin of Language234XVIIAn Early Nietzsche Fragment on Language250
