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Ranging from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins, this book shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority.
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The Search for the Perfect Language, Umberto Eco
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- 1997
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- Title
- The Search for the Perfect Language
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Umberto Eco
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0631205101
- ISBN13
- 9780631205104
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Philosophical Topics, Languages, Linguistics, Italian Literature, Culture, Semiotics, History of Language
- First published
- 1993
- Original title
- La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Ranging from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins, this book shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority.