The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century by Maurice Olender

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

Maurice Olender with Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)

213 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 ph...

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