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In Babel's Shadow: Language, Philology, and the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series)

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 | #3803228 in Books |  2008-08-27 |  2008-08-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.25 x6.00l,1.70 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book offers a very thoughtful discussion of the complex ...|By John A. Goldsmith|This book offers a very thoughtful discussion of the complex relationship between the language scholars of 19th century Europe and the larger political and social scene. There's relatively little linguistics as such in the book, but what there is shows that the author understands what she is w| |While many of the individual thinkers Benes explores have been studied elsewhere, there is to my mind no single work that attempts such a broad and well-informed synthesis of German thinking on language. . . . In Babel s Shadow is an impressive accomplishment.

In contrast to fields like anthropology, the history of linguistics has received remarkably little attention outside of its own discipline despite the undeniable impact language study has had on the modern period. In Babel's Shadow situates German language scholarship in relation to European nationalism, nineteenth-century notions of race and ethnicity, the methodologies of humanistic inquiry, and debates over the interpretation of scripture. Author Tuska Benes invest...

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