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Languages of Paradise Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century

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ISBN-10: 0674030621

ISBN-13: 9780674030626

Edition: 1992

Authors: Maurice Olender, Arthur Goldhammer

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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. 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, "scientific" methods in the nineteenth…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 228
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Maurice Olender is Maître de Conférences at the �%cole des Hautes �%tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Foreword
Preface Archives of Paradise Divine Vowels
The Cycle of the Chosen Peoples
The Hebrews and the Sublime
The Danger of Ambiguity
The Monotheism of the Aryas
Heavenly Nuptials
Grau Semites as Aryans Ignaz Goldziher Secrets of the Forge
Notes
Index