In the attempt to make good one of the desiderata in Bacon's Advancement of Learning, a cohort of seventeenth-century philosophers, scientists, schoolmasters, clergymen and virtuosi attempted to devise artificial languages that would immediately represent the order of thought. This was believed directly to represent the order of things and to be a universal characteristic of the human mind. Language, Mind and Nature is a 2007 text which fully reconstructs this artificial language movement. In so doing, it reveals a great deal about the beliefs and activities of those who sought to reform learning in seventeenth-century England. Artificial languages straddle occult, religious and proto-scientific approaches to representation and communication, and suggest that much of the so-called 'new philosophy' was not very new at all. This study broke important ground within its field, and will interest anyone concerned with early modern intellectual history or with the history of linguistic thought in general.
| ISBN: | 9780521294133 |
| Publication date: | 29th March 2012 |
| Author: | Rhodri MaxPlanckInstitut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Lewis |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Ideas in Context |
| Genres: |
Language: reference and general History of ideas |
In the attempt to make good one of the desiderata in Bacon's Advancement of Learning, a cohort of seventeenth-century philosophers, scientists, schoolmasters, clergymen and virtuosi attempted to devise artificial languages that would immediately represent the order of thought. This was believed directly to represent the order of things and to be a universal characteristic of the human mind. Language, Mind and Nature is a 2007 text which fully reconstructs this artificial language movement. In so doing, it reveals a great deal about the beliefs and activities of those who sought to reform learning in seventeenth-century England. Artificial languages straddle occult, religious and proto-scientific approaches to representation and communication, and suggest that much of the so-called 'new philosophy' was not very new at all. This study broke important ground within its field, and will interest anyone concerned with early modern intellectual history or with the history of linguistic thought in general.
Language, Mind and Nature features in the following genres: Language: reference and general, History of ideas
Language, Mind and Nature is available in Paperback, Hardback
Language, Mind and Nature was written by Rhodri MaxPlanckInstitut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press
Language, Mind and Nature has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Ideas in Context series
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