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Examines highly regarded proposals during the seventeenth century for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communication.
Author : M. M. Slaughter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1982-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521244773
Examines highly regarded proposals during the seventeenth century for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communication.
Author : Mary M. Slaughter
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File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : James Knowlson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 1975-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1487591020
For centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe. Yet as early as the first half of the seventeenth century, scholars, philosophers, and scientists were beginning to turn their attention to the possibility of formulating a totally new universal language. This wide-ranging book focuses upon the role that it was thought an ideal, universal, constructed language would play in the advancement of learning. The first section examines seventeenth-century attempts to establish a universal 'common writing' or, as Bishop Wilkins called it, a 'real character and philosophical language.' This movement involved or interested scientists and philosophers as distinguished as Descartes, Mersenne, Comenius, Newton, Hooke, and Leibniz. The second part of the book follows the same theme through to the final years of the eighteenth century, where the implications of language-building for the progress of knowledge are presented as part of the wider question which so interested French philosophers, that of the influence of signs on thought. The author also includes a chapter tracing the frequent appearance of ideal languages in French and English imaginary voyages, and an appendix on the idea that gestural signs might supply a universal language. This work is intended as a contribution to the history of ideas rather than of linguistics proper, and because it straddles several disciplines, will interest a wide variety of reader. It treats comprehensively a subject that has not previously been adequately dealt with, and should become the standard work in its field.
Author : Robert E. Stillman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838753101
That saving form of knowledge, as it develops in the lines of linguistic thought that extend from Bacon's Instauration to Wilkins's Philosophical Language, is both a product of and one potent agent in producing the emerging, scientistically designed, modern state.
Author : Paul Cornelius
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782600034715
Author : Sarah Hutton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191059501
Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke, rank alongside the greatest names in the European philosophical canon. Bacon too belongs with this constellation of great thinkers, although his status as a philosopher tends to be obscured by his status as father of modern science. The seventeenth century is normally regarded as the dawn of modernity following the breakdown of the Aristotelian synthesis which had dominated intellectual life since the middle ages. In this period of transformational change, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke are acknowledged to have contributed significantly to the shape of European philosophy from their own time to the present day. But these figures did not work in isolation. Sarah Hutton places them in their intellectual context, including the social, political and religious conditions in which philosophy was practised. She treats seventeenth-century philosophy as an ongoing conversation: like all conversations, some voices will dominate, some will be more persuasive than others and there will be enormous variations in tone from the polite to polemical, matter-of-fact, intemperate. The conversation model allows voices to be heard which would otherwise be discounted. Hutton shows the importance of figures normally regarded as 'minor' players in philosophy (e.g. Herbert of Cherbury, Cudworth, More, Burthogge, Norris, Toland) as well as others who have been completely overlooked, notably female philosophers. Crucially, instead of emphasizing the break between seventeenth-century philosophy and its past, the conversation model makes it possible to trace continuities between the Renaissance and seventeenth century, across the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century, while at the same time acknowledging the major changes which occurred.
Author : Vivian Salmon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027286116
This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the ‘universal language’.
Author : Mark L. Greenberg
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780934223201
Major authors investigated include Chaucer, Blake, Romains, Pynchon, and Prigogine.
Author : Howard Hotson
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 3863954033
Between 1500 and 1800, the rapid evolution of postal communication allowed ordinary men and women to scatter letters across Europe like never before. This exchange helped knit together what contemporaries called the ‘respublica litteraria’, a knowledge-based civil society, crucial to that era’s intellectual breakthroughs, formative of many modern values and institutions, and a potential cornerstone of a transnational level of European identity. Ironically, the exchange of letters which created this community also dispersed the documentation required to study it, posing enormous difficulties for historians of the subject ever since. To reassemble that scattered material and chart the history of that imagined community, we need a revolution in digital communications. Between 2014 and 2018, an EU networking grant assembled an interdisciplinary community of over 200 experts from 33 different countries and many different fields for four years of structured discussion. The aim was to envisage transnational digital infrastructure for facilitating the radically multilateral collaboration needed to reassemble this scattered documentation and to support a new generation of scholarly work and public dissemination. The framework emerging from those discussions – potentially applicable also to other forms of intellectual, cultural and economic exchange in other periods and regions – is documented in this book.
Author : Vivian Salmon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 1996-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027276099
This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The Study of Universal and Particular Traits of Language, and 3. Language Learning and Language Instruction. The volume is completed by an index of biographical names and an index of subjects and terms.