Language in the Age of Enlightenment

EDITORIALE / Marco Costantini, Pierluigi D’Agostino / Language in the Age of Enlightenment. Linguistic theories in 18th century Europe This...

ARTICOLI / 1 / Cordula Neis / This contribution is dedicated to the foundations of linguistic thinking in the European Enlightenment....

CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Rossella Amendolara / The Problem of the Origin of Language in Warburton and his Reception in France...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Raffaele Putignano / The Origin of Condillac’s Paradox in the Essai. Analysis of the Structure and Composition...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Stefano Gensini / For a Theory of the Origins of Natural Language. From Leibniz to Vico...

ARTICOLI / 3 / Michael Losonsky / Leibniz’s work on language left a lasting impression on 18th-century philosophical thinking about language. His two major works that discussed natural language were both published in the 18th century and in these works Leibniz...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Francesco Cataldi / This paper aims to illustrate how Lord Monboddo (James Burnett), one of the most eccentric figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, conceived language, contrasting his positions with the views adopted by his contemporaries who endorsed...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Sebastiano Mosti / Gestures, Bodies, Singing. At the Origin of the Language in Scienza nuova of 1744 This paper deals with Giambattista Vico’s linguistic doctrine presented in the 1744 edition of the Scienza nuova, focusing on the question of...

ARTICOLI / 4 / Luigi Cataldi Madonna / Johann Georg Zur Linden’s Hermeneutics. Author’s Meaning and Text Meaning His main references (Christian Wolff and the pietist Johann Jakob Rambach) make Zur Linden one of the earliest examples of a new intellectual...

ARTICOLI / 5 / Marco Costantini / Use of Language and Common Discourse. From Wolff to Kant In this contribution, we formulate the thesis that the methodological criticism against Wolff raised by Kant in his early writings is fully justified only...

ARTICOLI / 6 / Pierluigi D’Agostino / Form, exhibition and subjectivity. Transformations of the linguistic question in Harris, Roth, and Vater In this paper, I will examine the historical and conceptual relations between James Harris, Georg Michael Roth and Johann Severin...

TESTI / 1 / Karl Philipp Moritz / In this essay, Karl Philipp Moritz seeks to demonstrate how a psychological analysis of language can clarify the deeper meaning behind the use of certain linguistic expressions. Specifically, Moritz focuses on impersonal...