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The Languages Of Paradise

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Author : Maurice Olender
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1992

The Languages Of Paradise written by Maurice Olender and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.

Michel Foucault observed that âeoethe birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy.âe In this penetrating exploration of the origin of the discipline, Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century. The comparative study of languages was inspired by Renaissance debates over what language was spoken in the Garden of Eden. By the eighteenth century scholars were persuaded that European languages shared a common ancestor. With the adoption of positivist, âeoescientificâe methods in the nineteenth century, the hunt for the language of Eden and the search for a European Ursprache diverged. Yet the desire to reconcile historical causality with divine purpose remained. Because the Indo-European languages clearly had a separate line of descent from the biblical tongues, the practitioners of the new science of philology (many of whom had received their linguistic training from the Church) turned their scholarship to the task of justifying the ascendance of European Christianity to the principal role in Providential history. To accomplish this they invented a pair of conceptsâe"Aryan and Semiticâe"that by the end of the century had embarked on ideological and political careers far outside philology. Supposed characteristics of the respective languages were assigned to the peoples who spoke them: thus the Semitic peoples (primarily the Jews) were, like their language, passive, static, and immobile, while the Aryans (principally Western Europeans) became the active, dynamic Chosen People of the future. Olender traces the development of these concepts through the work of J. G. Herder, Ernest Renan, Friedrich Max Müller, Adolphe Pictet, Rudolph Grau, and Ignaz Goldziher. He shows that, despite their different approaches, each of these men struggled more or less purposefully âeoeto join romanticism with positivism in an effort to preserve a common allegiance to the doctrines of Providence.âe With erudition and elegance, Olender restores the complexity and internal contradictions of their ideas and recreates the intellectual climate in which they flourished.

The Languages Of Paradise

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Author : Maurice Olender
language : en
Publisher: Other PressLlc
Release Date : 1992

The Languages Of Paradise written by Maurice Olender and has been published by Other PressLlc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.

Michel Foucault observed that "the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy." In this penetrating exploration of the origin of the discipline, Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history, and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century. "A riveting book about a difficult but important subject. Olender plunges into the scientific roots of modern racial myths with verve, wit, and remarkable erudition, producing both a dense, powerful monograph in the history of philology and a fascinating essay on the roots of twentieth-century errors and horrors." –Anthony Grafton, Princeton University "The Languages of Paradise is heavenly to read. What languages did the first humans speak? Maurice Olender traces the answers of major scholars to that question from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, showing how rival claims for Hebrew and Sanskrit connect with fundamental ideas about race and culture. Rarely have the intricacies of comparative philology been made so accessible to the common reader as in Maurice Olender's fluid prose, given sparkling translation by Arthur Goldhammer." –Natalie Zemon Davis, Princeton University

Passwords To Paradise

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Author : Nicholas Ostler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Release Date : 2016-02-23

Passwords To Paradise written by Nicholas Ostler and has been published by Bloomsbury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language, at once a compelling and beguiling metaphor for the Christian story of the Beginning. To further complicate matters, the words we read now are in any number of languages that would have been unknown or unrecognizable at the time of their composition. The gospel may have been originally dictated or written in Aramaic, but our only written source for the story is in Greek. Today, as your average American reader of the New Testament picks up his or her Bible off the shelf, the phrase as it appears has been translated from various linguistic intermediaries before its current manifestation in modern English. How to understand these words then, when so many other translators, languages, and cultures have exercised some level of influence on them? Christian tradition is not unique in facing this problem. All religions--if they have global aspirations--have to change in order to spread their influence, and often language has been the most powerful agent thereof. Passwords to Paradise explores the effects that language difference and language conversion have wrought on the world's great faiths, spanning more than two thousand years. It is an original and intriguing perspective on the history of religion by a master linguistic historian.

Serendipities

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Author : Umberto Eco
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 1999

Serendipities written by Umberto Eco and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

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Reconfiguring And Appropriating Arabic Persian And Indic Literary Traditions In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Britain

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Author : Claire Gallien
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-03-20

Reconfiguring And Appropriating Arabic Persian And Indic Literary Traditions In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Britain written by Claire Gallien and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-20 with Literary Criticism categories.

Reconfiguring and Appropriating Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literary Traditions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the reconfigurations of literary traditions coming from Islamicate regions of the world by British orientalists. Claire Gallien explores the logics of orientalist selection, reconfiguration, and appropriation of Islamicate literary canons, and focuses on the period going from the endowment of the first chairs in Arabic at Cambridge and Oxford in 1632 and 1636 respectively to the establishment of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784, presided by Sir William Jones until 1794. Contrary to the Saidian premise of an invention of the East by the West, Gallien argues that orientalists did not invent a canon but they transferred and translated texts and authors, which/who were already recognised as canonical across Islamicate literary cultures. Given the above, the question that preoccupies this book is what happens to the canon when partially re-created and re-purposed for European readers. Organised in three main parts, this book analyses first the constitution of collections of Arabic, Persian, and Indic manuscripts and their cataloguing in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The second part investigates the variety of linguistic and literary partitioning and assemblage proposed by orientalists and discusses how their classical literary formation underpinned theories and practices of imitation, translation, and writing. The third part examines the editing and translating of Arabic, Persian, and Indic literatures in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England as well as in British colonial India, and in particular the function of specimens and anthologies in the constitution of a corpus of Eastern literatures in English.

Lectures On The Science Of Language Delivered At The Royal Institution Of Great Britain In 1861 And 1863

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Author : Friedrich Max Müller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861

Lectures On The Science Of Language Delivered At The Royal Institution Of Great Britain In 1861 And 1863 written by Friedrich Max Müller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with Comparative linguistics categories.

Lectures On The Science Of Language

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Author : Friedrich Max Müller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877

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In The Linguistic Paradise

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Author : Ozo-mekuri Ndimele
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

In The Linguistic Paradise written by Ozo-mekuri Ndimele and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Linguistics categories.

The English Cyclopaedia

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861

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The Science Of Language Founded On Lectures Delivered At The Royla Institution In 1861 And 1863

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Author : F. MAX MULLER, K.M.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1899

The Science Of Language Founded On Lectures Delivered At The Royla Institution In 1861 And 1863 written by F. MAX MULLER, K.M. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with categories.