Condillac: Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge - Couverture souple

Condillac, Hans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521585767 ISBN 13 : 9780521585767

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Condillac Etienne Bonnot De

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Condillac's Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time a radical departure from the dominant conception of the mind as a reservoir of innately given ideas. Descartes had held that knowledge must rest on ideas; Condillac turned this upside down by arguing that speech and words are the origin of mental life and knowledge. He argued, further, that language has its origin in human interaction and in our natural capacity to react spontaneously and instinctively to the expression of emotions and states of mind in others. The importance of this pointedly anti-Cartesian view, and its relevance to both aesthetics and epistemology, were quickly understood, and Condillac's work influenced many later philosophers including Herder, Rousseau, and Adam Smith. His conception also anticipated Wittgenstein's view of language, its usage, and its relation to mind and thought.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Hans Aarsleff is Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521585767
• ISBN 13: 9780521585767
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276