Locke, Language and Early-Modern PhilosophyIn a powerful and original contribution to the history of ideas, Hannah Dawson explores the intense preoccupation with language in early modern philosophy, and presents an analysis of John Locke's critique of words. By examining a broad sweep of pedagogical and philosophical material from antiquity to the late seventeenth century, Dr Dawson explains why language caused anxiety in various writers. Locke, Language and Early Modern Philosophy