The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674510526 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Olender traces the development of these concepts through the work of J. Yet the desire to reconcile historical causality with divine purpose remained. Because the Indo-European languages clearly had a separate line of descent from the biblical tongues, the practitioners of the new scien
The Languages of Paradise is a little masterpiece of exposition as well as of analysis. What makes this study so nightmarish is that Maurice Olender reveals that many of these scholars criticized any ‘racist’ notion of ‘race,’ a term which many affected nonetheless; that they were at pains to attribute to Judaism a ‘poetic sublimity’ while condemning its sterilizing archaism; and that they championed religious, cultural, and national pluralism before abandoning themselves to a vertiginous Christianity which, by being Aryanized, was the o
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