The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk

by Samuel McCormick

Book Overview

From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass," the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it was not until Kierkegaard developed the term chatter that this disdain began to focus on the ordinary communicative practices that sustain this form of human togetherness.

The Chattering Mind explores the intellectual tradition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022667763X
• ISBN13: 9780226677637
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages