Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy in the French Enlightenment Book

	Introduction
Pt. I	The overture to the Enlightenment debate: language in the interstices of the intellectual and physical nature of humanity	1
1	Interpretations of language as an argument for and against dualism: Descartes and his sensualistic opponents in the seventeenth century	3
2	Language and the affects in the Port-Royal Logic	24
3	Cordemoy and dualism: consequences of a Cartesian theory of signs	33
4	The Cartesian argument: rationalism and empiricism in Bernard Lamy's conception of language	38
5	Language and sense perception in the controversy between Arnauld and Malebranche	44
6	Language and the epistemological evaluation of the senses from Descartes to Locke and Du Bos: the outcome of the seventeenth century	51
Pt. II	Language, anthropology and history in the Enlightenment	61
7	A century of controversy	63
8	From Locke to Condillac: the development of the sensualistic theory of language	70
9	Grammar, philosophy, anthropology: the problem of word order	111
10	The origin of language and the historical view of humanity	134
11	Language and evolutionary thinking	149
12	The "abuse of words"	160
13	Language and knowledge: theoretical sources of the "Linguistic Relativity" of cognition	174
14	The French Enlightenment and its aftermath: linguistic theory and language debates from the Enlightenment to the Restoration	191
15	Concluding remarks: assessment of the discussion of language in the French Enlightenment	226
	Notes	233
	Bibliography	259
	Index	281