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Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke

Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke

Lewis, Rhodri

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Series: Ideas in Context, Book 80

Miscellaneous LanguagesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521294134
ISBN13: 9780521294133
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 29 2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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