The linguistic turn in hermeneutic philosophy /

Annotation The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in this century by Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer extended its influence to contem...

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Main Author: Lafont, Cristina, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
Series:Studies in contemporary German social thought.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Linguistic Turn in the German Tradition of the Philosophy of Language
  • Hamann's Critique of Kant: The Role of Language as Constitutive of Our Relation with the World
  • The Constitutive Dimension of Language According to Humboldt
  • The View of Language of Philosophical Hermeneutics
  • The Conception of Language in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action
  • Language as Medium of Understanding: The Communicative Use of Language
  • Language as Medium of Learning: The Cognitive Use of Language
  • Habermas's Theory of Communicative Rationality from an Internal Realist Point of View
  • Rational Acceptability and Truth
  • Rational Acceptability and Moral Rightness.