After reading "The Brain" I switched to less popular "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker. For me it is revolutionary book. I must admit - I never had appreciation to linguistic approach to philosophical problems. However, this book slowly changes my prejudice into admiration.
Too soon for the full review, but I already can say that it shows how important and fundamental and not-just-formal are linguistic studies. As one of the reviewers wrote: "Pikner probes the mystery of human nature by examining how we use words"....
More to come, I will continue reading (listening to) while travelling across Paris & London ...
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At last, I finished reading Sloterdijk’s Spheres - a four-year intellectual journey
Peter Sloterdijk; drawing by Siegfried Woldhek Today I finished reading Peter Sloterdijk’s magnum opus, Spheres, in its three volumes. It ha...
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