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A Revolution in Language - The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France (Paperback)
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A Revolution in Language - The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France (Paperback)
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What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and
the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes
up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptions
of language and, especially, signs during the second half of the
eighteenth century. The author traces, first, the emergence of a
new interest in the possibility of gestural communication within
the philosophy, theater, and pedagogy of the last decades of the
Old Regime. She then explores the varied uses and significance of a
variety of semiotic experiments, including the development of a
sign language for the deaf, within the language politics of the
Revolution. A Revolution in Language shows not only that many key
revolutionary thinkers were unusually preoccupied by questions of
language, but also that prevailing assumptions about words and
other signs profoundly shaped revolutionaries' efforts to imagine
and to institute an ideal polity between 1789 and the start of the
new century. This book reveals the links between Enlightenment
epistemology and the development of modern French political
culture.
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