The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity

by Charles Taylor

"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." --John Cottingham, The Tablet

In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067466020X
• ISBN13: 9780674660205
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"