Kant on Language (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009239172)

Kant had thoughts on language, but his account of language is not explicit and cannot be found in any dedicated section of his works, so it needs to be philosophically reconstructed. The chapters in this volume investigate Kant's views on language from unique perspectives. They demonstrate that Kant's notions of thinking, knowing, communicating, and acting have implications for the philosophy of language: from the problem of empirical concept-formation to the categorial structure of experience, from the exhibition of aesthetic ideas to the role of analogies and metaphors, from poetry as the art of language to the moral relevance of rhetoric and the problem of persuasion, and from the source of Kant's philosophical vocabulary to the role of language in defining 'humanity'. The volume offers a new and distinctive interpretive context in which Kant's approach to language can be critically appreciated.

Author: Luigi Filieri
ISBN-10: 1009239171
ISBN-13: 9781009239172
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2025
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d