The linguistic instinct

"Language is a cultural being and reproduces culture." This is what we hear and believe from intellectuals and philosophers all the time. But this is a book that turns the table on the cultural discourse, and clarifies in a gentle prose — addressed to both the non-specialist and the specialist reader — that there is an innate instinct in language, and that this instinct and innate nature in language precede the complexities of culture, just as the instinct of love precedes the customs and traditions of marriage. The author's ability to explain advanced concepts in analytical philosophy to non-specialists is the main reason for the success of the giant book in its mother tongue first, and its translation into many languages afterward. This book will prove to you that language is an instinct, as much as hunger, thirst, love, and sleep, and that this instinct is not a purely metaphysical mystery, but scientifically understandable and subject to precise study, starting from biology and human genes to the complexities of cultural dialects. It is a journey from which the reader will not emerge without having changed many of their convictions, whether they agree with the author's thesis or not.