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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-10067466020X

ISBN-139780674660205

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Number of Pages368 Pages

Publication NameLanguage Animal : the Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity

LanguageEnglish

SubjectLanguage, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, History & Surveys / Modern, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology

AuthorCharles Taylor

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight20 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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LCCN2015-034224

Dewey Edition23

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ReviewsTaylor's argument is salutary and powerful. His erudition is impressive, and the rich diet of examples he assembles poses a serious challenge to facile reductionist accounts of language and of human nature., Characteristically, [Taylor'e(tm)s] latest book transgresses the boundaries of usually distinct philosophical topics, incorporating disciplines outside philosophy: anthropology, sociology and developmental psychology. Philosophy of language becomes the doorway to metaphysics, politics and ethics, and to working out the nature of modernity and what it has made us., There is no other book that has presented a critique of conventional philosophy of language in these terms and constructed an alternative to it in anything like this way., [Taylor's] ultimate objective in his latest book, The Language Animal , is to demonstrate how we can all live in a more tolerant 'flexible' (his word) world-if we can learn how to make the most of the resources, above all the resources for communication, we all share. This is a continuation of the ideas he has been working on throughout his astonishingly long and productive career. Taylor writes in a compelling, congenial way that enables him to encompass seeming contradictions., Taylor'e(tm)s argument is salutary and powerful. His erudition is impressive, and the rich diet of examples he assembles poses a serious challenge to facile reductionist accounts of language and of human nature., True to its author's background in philosophy and political thought, The Language Animal is less a scientific, by-the-facts book than a reflective and often poetic account of how language shapes human experience., [Taylor's] ultimate objective in his latest book, The Language Animal , is to demonstrate how we can all live in a more tolerant 'flexible' (his word) world--if we can learn how to make the most of the resources, above all the resources for communication, we all share. This is a continuation of the ideas he has been working on throughout his astonishingly long and productive career. Taylor writes in a compelling, congenial way that enables him to encompass seeming contradictions., True to its author'e(tm)s background in philosophy and political thought, The Language Animal is less a scientific, by-the-facts book than a reflective and often poetic account of how language shapes human experience., Just as Humboldt believed that 'possessing a language is to be continuously involved in trying to extend its powers of articulation,' Charles Taylor's new book, The Language Animal , demonstrates how the very study of language over time embodies the evolving human effort to extend our understanding--not only of language, but of the very self language helps to describe, propel, and transcend. It is a deeply thoughtful, historically enriching, and ultimately luminous book., Taylor's prolific philosophical output is justly celebrated for the rich historical sweep of its learning... The Language Animal ...is no exception...By the end we have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human., Just as Humboldt believed that 'e~possessing a language is to be continuously involved in trying to extend its powers of articulation,'e(tm) Charles Taylor'e(tm)s new book, The Language Animal , demonstrates how the very study of language over time embodies the evolving human effort to extend our understanding'e"not only of language, but of the very self language helps to describe, propel, and transcend. It is a deeply thoughtful, historically enriching, and ultimately luminous book., Just as Humboldt believed that 'possessing a language is to be continuously involved in trying to extend its powers of articulation,' Charles Taylor's new book, The Language Animal , demonstrates how the very study of language over time embodies the evolving human effort to extend our understanding-not only of language, but of the very self language helps to describe, propel, and transcend. It is a deeply thoughtful, historically enriching, and ultimately luminous book., Taylor is one of the handful of most important thinkers of our era. The line of thinking he develops in The Language Animal is basic to his whole work since Explanation of Behaviour . Many readers will grasp the importance of a constitutive view of language, and for them this will be a landmark book., Just as Humboldt believed that 'e~possessing a language is to be continuously involved in trying to extend its powers of articulation,'e(tm) Charles Taylor 'e(tm)s new book, The Language Animal , demonstrates how the very study of language over time embodies the evolving human effort to extend our understanding'e"not only of language, but of the very self language helps to describe, propel, and transcend. It is a deeply thoughtful, historically enriching, and ultimately luminous book., Taylor moves well beyond theory, looking at the 'shape, scope and uses of language.' We find out a great deal about how language is learned, semantic invention, and how words fit into the broader palette of art, ritual, gesture and symbol., Taylor moves well beyond theory, looking at the 'e~shape, scope and uses of language.'e(tm) We find out a great deal about how language is learned, semantic invention, and how words fit into the broader palette of art, ritual, gesture and symbol., Characteristically, [Taylor's] latest book transgresses the boundaries of usually distinct philosophical topics, incorporating disciplines outside philosophy: anthropology, sociology and developmental psychology. Philosophy of language becomes the doorway to metaphysics, politics and ethics, and to working out the nature of modernity and what it has made us., Taylor'e(tm)s prolific philosophical output is justly celebrated for the rich historical sweep of its learning'e¦ The Language Animal 'e¦is no exception'e¦By the end we have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.

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Synopsis"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." --John Cottingham, The Tablet 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., 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., From Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create ways of being, as individuals and as a society. Here, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process. Language does not merely describe; it constitutes meaning, and the shared practice of speech shapes human experience.

LC Classification NumberP107.T39 2016