Made with Words
Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
(Sprache: Englisch)
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with...
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Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract.
Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Made with Words “
Introduction 1 Chapter One: Mind in Nature 9 Chapter Two: Minds with Words 24 Chapter Three: Using Words to Ratiocinate 42 Chapter Four: Using Words to Personate 55 Chapter Five: Using Words to Incorporate 70 Chapter Six: Words and the Warping of Appetite 84 Chapter Seven: The State of Second, Worded Nature 98 Chapter Eight: The Commonwealth of Ordered Words 115 Summary 141 Notes 155 References 169 Index 177
Autoren-Porträt von Philip Pettit
Philip Pettit is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. His books include "The Common Mind", "Republicanism", and "Rules, Reasons, and Norms". A collection of papers on his work, "Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit", appeared in 1997.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Philip Pettit
- 192 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691143250
- ISBN-13: 9780691143255
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.07.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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"It might seem, then, that little more can be said about Hobbes, but Pettit's oblique analysis of the language and reasoning sheds a very distinctive light on Hobbes's political insights, and genuinely adds new ideas to an oft-trampled field. Not only do we get a clearly organized and coherent explanation of the ideas, within a convincing framework as the ideas grow from language itself to the body politic, but we instantly know we're in the hands of a writer who really knows his Hobbes: the arguments move steadily and logically through, supported by (in the best sense) eclectic quotations from the original works (all in English, since some of them originally appeared in Latin)."--Stuart Hannabuss, Library Review
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