Book review
Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie Vol. I: Von Heraklit bis Rousseau. By Eugenio Coseriu.
xxv + 414 pp.Tübingen: Narr–Francke–Attempto Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8233-6896-0 €39.99.
andGeschichte der Sprachphilosophie Vol. II: Von Herder bis Humboldt. By Jörn Albrecht, ed.
xiv + 468 pp.Tübingen: Narr–Francke–Attempto Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8233-6953-0 €39.99 (HB)

Reviewed by Michael N. Forster

Universität Bonn

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References
Address for correspondence

These two volumes are edited versions of lectures on the history of the philosophy of language that were delivered by the distinguished historian of the philosophy of language Eugenio Coseriu (1921–2002). Volume I, which covers the period from Heraclitus to Rousseau, constitutes a lightly revised edition of a volume that has already been printed twice before (the last time in 2003). Volume II, which covers the relatively short span from Herder to Wilhelm von Humboldt, appears for the first time.

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