THE LANGUAGE ANIMAL

In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, b oth as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the cente r of this generative process.For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empirici st tradition?Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs?assert that language is a tool that human beings developed to encode and comm unicate ...[Read more]