Tag: language
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‘On the Origin of Language: Two Essays’ by Jean-Jacques Rousseau & Johann Gottfried Herder
Language’s beginning cannot be asked innocently, and this volume makes that difficulty audible. By bringing into deliberate proximity Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages and Herder’s Treatise on the Origin of Language, it stages an encounter between a phenomenology of emergence—voice, accent, melody, climate, polity—and a transcendental anthropology of sign-making—reflection, designation, Besonnenheit (deliberative awareness),…
Simon Gros 