This classic study of human language was first published in 1836, as a general introduction to Humboldt's treatise on the Kawi language of Java. It is the final statement of his lifelong study of language, exploring its universal structures and its relation to mind and culture. It remains one of the most interesting and important attempts to draw philosophical conclusions from comparative linguistics. This volume presents a modern translation by Peter Heath together with a new introduction by Michael Losonsky that places Humboldt's work in its historical and philosophical context.
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"The editor's introduction contains a fine summary of Humboldt'd career." Notes on Linguistics
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Besides its prefiguration of the concept of Universal Grammar, and regardless of its influence on Chomsky, this book still remains an amazing philosophical tour de force on the nature of language. Some passages are simply breath taking.
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If we consider their dwelling-places, their mode of government, their history, and above all their language, the peoples of Malayan race stand in a stranger connection with races of different culture than perhaps any other people on earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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If we consider their dwelling-places, their mode of government, their history, and above all their language, the peoples of Malayan race stand in a stranger connection with races of different culture than perhaps any other people on earth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche on page 288
- Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Schopenhauer on page 288
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on page 287
- Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche on page 288
- Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Schleiermacher on page 288
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