Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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Page 135
... languages into families , and the final rejection of the divine origins of language . It is no exaggeration to say that these accomplishments were a more or less direct consequence of the view that held language to be an entirely human ...
... languages into families , and the final rejection of the divine origins of language . It is no exaggeration to say that these accomplishments were a more or less direct consequence of the view that held language to be an entirely human ...
Page 136
... language entailed its own history , philosophy , and learning , all of which did away with any notion of a primal language given by the Godhead to man in Eden . As the study of Sanskrit and the expansive mood of the later eighteenth ...
... language entailed its own history , philosophy , and learning , all of which did away with any notion of a primal language given by the Godhead to man in Eden . As the study of Sanskrit and the expansive mood of the later eighteenth ...
Page 138
... language : man is no longer an inventor , and the age of creation is definitely over.36 There was a period , at which we can only guess , when man was literally transported from silence into words . After that there was language , and ...
... language : man is no longer an inventor , and the age of creation is definitely over.36 There was a period , at which we can only guess , when man was literally transported from silence into words . After that there was language , and ...
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