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

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

Maurice Olender, Arthur Goldhammer

213 pages • first pub 1989 (view 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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