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28%OFFPhilip Pettit - Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics - 9780691143255 - V9780691143255
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Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

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Description for Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics Paperback. Hobbes' 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. This book argues that it was Hobbes who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691143255
SKU
V9780691143255
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About 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.

Reviews for Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers "This book is the best short introduction to Hobbes's philosophy now available, but it's more than that. It is a meditation on the ways in which language makes politics possible, and on the reasons why language makes politics so difficult. Pettit, one of the world's leading philosophers, brings ... Read more

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