4 The search for linguistic transparency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of figures 7
4. List of tables 9
5. 1 Introduction 11
6. Part I Reforming the language of philosophy
7. 2 The Hobbesian Turn 45
8. 3 Enlightened vocabularies 65
9. Part II Translating the New Philosophy
10. 4 The search for linguistic transparency 105
11. 5 The politics of linguistic purism 143
12. 6 The rhetoric of translation 167
13. 7 The eclecticism of the marketplace 201
14. 8 Conclusion 235
15. Bibliography 245
16. Appendix A. The Translation Corpus 271
17. Appendix B. The Test Corpus 273
18. Index of persons 293