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Published in: Human Studies 3/2018

18-06-2018 | Book Review

Language and the As-Structure of Experience

Charles Taylor: The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016, x + 345 pp + index, $35.00

Authors: Robert D. Stolorow, George E. Atwood

Published in: Human Studies | Issue 3/2018

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In recent years a number of excellent books have appeared devoted to the phenomenology of language (Inkpin 2016; Taylor 2016; Hatab 2017)—that is, to the experience of language and how this experience shapes one’s experience of oneself and of the world. Here we focus on Charles Taylor’s (2016) book, The Language Animal, which for us points to the most radical implications, but at the same time falls short of fully developing them. …
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Footnotes
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The contributions of Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac to the designative viewpoint and of Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt to the constitutive perspective.
 
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Title
Language and the As-Structure of Experience
Charles Taylor: The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016, x + 345 pp + index, $35.00
Authors
Robert D. Stolorow
George E. Atwood
Publication date
18-06-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Human Studies / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0163-8548
Electronic ISSN: 1572-851X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-018-9472-x

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