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100 1 $aPettit, Philip,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50010452
245 10 $aMade with words :$bHobbes on language, mind, and politics /$cPhilip Pettit.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $a183 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [169]-175) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tMind in Nature --$g2.$tMinds with Words --$g3.$tUsing Words to Ratiocinate --$g4.$tUsing Words to Personate --$g5.$tUsing Words to Incorporate --$g6.$tWords and the Warping of Appetite --$g7.$tThe State of Second, Worded Nature --$g8.$tThe Commonwealth of Ordered Words.
520 1 $a"Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy." "Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict - the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHobbes, Thomas,$d1588-1679.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059190
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0716/2007017230.html
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852 00 $bbar$hB1247$i.P48 2008