{"product_id":"an-essay-concerning-human-misunderstanding-hank-youngman-9798224476237","title":"An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere is a treatise on language gone wrong. It begins with a deception, it continues as insanity, and it culminates in tyranny. It all began as a confusion in concept.\u003cbr\u003eSo here is a treatise on concept: the silent function of language, the semantics of metaphor, the senses of brotherhood, liberty, intelligence, and sanity. Here is a treatise on knowledge, at once inalienable and lost, resembling the latter epithet for its neglect, and validated as the former in its restoration. The essay within is a criticism of the one, and a guide to the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding is the central entry in the eponymous series. It is a meditation on contemporary passions that burden the modern citizen. Relying on linguistic science, philosophical appeal, and human curiosity, it locates their origin in a conceptual error, which discovery is at once to the reader's satisfaction and the means of recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hank Youngman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798224476237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hank Youngman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d","brand":"Hank Youngman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482748346623,"sku":"9798224476237","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_175dcd0d-0229-470e-98b3-2c2930d9ec1e.jpg?v=1715999412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-essay-concerning-human-misunderstanding-hank-youngman-9798224476237","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}