The Language Animal
A Long Trajectory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paolo Costa (0000-0001-5757-0555, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 621-632 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217317000774 |
| OpenAlex | W2781871287 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
In my paper, I set The Language Animal against a broader picture of Charles Taylor’s intellectual trajectory. Sources of the Self (1989) left open three major questions: (a) the viability of religious moral sources in a ‘secular’ age; (b) the compatibility between a robust moral realism and a genealogical account of modern identity; and (c) the meaning and destiny of the so-called ‘linguistic turn.’ This is the framing topic of his last book. Although Taylor’s variety of hermeneutics is unquestionably a product of the linguistic turn, he has operated with a broad notion of the linguistic capacity from the start. Language is, for him, a shared activity and the acknowledgment of its animal embeddedness functions in his work as an antidote against any too idealized a view of the kind of creatures that humans are. In his earlier writings, however, a structural tension lurked below the surface between a Gadamerian notion of Sprache and a more phenomenological, Merleau-Pontyan, embodied outlook that was less modelled on articulate speech. My claim is that his new book marks a shift from a more speech-oriented to a more body-oriented understanding of language
Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Framing (construction) · Linguistics · Sociology · History · Humanities and Social Sciences · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
The Renaissance philosophy of man
Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World
Human Agency and Language
Retrieving Realism
Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch
Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch
Neural reuse
Strong Evaluation without Moral Sources
Reading Brandom
Philosophy and the Human Sciences
The Philosophical Arguments
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism
Charles Taylor
A Secular Age
Hegel
Philosophical arguments
Sources of the self
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
The Language Animal
The Disenchantment of the World
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |