Language and Thought: German Approaches to Analytic Philosophy in the 18th and 19th Centuries: German Approaches to Analytic Philosophy in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Language and thought • German approaches to analytic philosophy in the 18th and 19th centuries / Hermann J. Cloeren. p. cm. -(Grundlagen der Kommunikation = Foundations of communication) Includes bibliographical references and Index. ISBN 0-89925-358-X (U.S.) I. Acknowledgments Contents Introduction 1. The place of language critique in the history of modern philosophy 2. Language as factual a priori of thought: J. G. Hamann (1730-1788) 3. Philosophy as linguistic analysis: G. Chr. Lichtenberg (1742—1799) 4. Language critique as enlightenment and liberation: August v. Einsiedel (1754—1837) 5. Critique of language as metacritique of reason: Johann Gottfried Herder (1744—1803) 6. Germans and Britons: Bacon's importance for language-critical philosophy 7. Language and thought as identical twins: F. H. Jacobi (1743—1819) 8. The interdependence of language and thought: K. L. Reinhold (1758—1823) 9. Analytic empiricism versus metaphysics: Otto Friedrich Gruppe (1804—1876) 10. Analytic aspects in Marx' attitude towards religion 1 11. The linguistic turn in Kierkegaard's attack on Hegel 12. Language as condition and limitation of thought: Conrad Hermann (1819—1897) 13. Thought acts and speech acts: Gustav Gerber (1820—1901) 14. A German analyst in nineteenth-century Oxford: Friedrich Max Müller (1823—1900) 15. Language-critical philosophy with a monistic foundation: Ludwig Noiré (1829—1889) 16. Indebted to Kant and Schopenhauer: Georg Runze (1852—1922) 17. All philosophy is critique of language — in the sense of Fritz Mauthner (1849—1923) 18. Review and conclusion Index of names Index of subjects

Die Buchreihe Konzepte der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft gibt Aufschluss über Prinzipien, Probleme und Verfahrensweisen philologischer Forschung im weitesten Sinne und dient einer Bestimmung des Standorts der Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft. Die Reihe übergreift Einzelsprachen und Einzelliteraturen. Sie stellt sich in den Dienst der Reflexion und Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Die Bände sind zum Teil informierende Einführungen, zum Teil wissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge.

From the eighteenth through the nineteenth century there was a lively philosophical discussion of the relation between language and thought and particularly of the influence of language on philosophy. Hermann J. Cloeren. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.