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In Babel's Shadow - Language, Philology, and Nation in Nineteenth-century Germany (Hardcover): Tuska Benes In Babel's Shadow - Language, Philology, and Nation in Nineteenth-century Germany (Hardcover)
Tuska Benes
R1,885 Discovery Miles 18 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a comprehensive cultural history of the language sciences in nineteenth-century Germany.In contrast to fields like anthropology, the history of linguistics has received remarkably little attention outside of its own discipline despite the undeniable impact language study has had on the modern period. ""In Babel's Shadow"" situates German language scholarship in relation to European nationalism, nineteenth-century notions of race and ethnicity, the methodologies of humanistic inquiry, and debates over the interpretation of scripture. Author Tuska Benes investigates how the German nation came to be defined as a linguistic community and argues that the 'linguistic turn' in today's social sciences and humanities can be traced to the late eighteenth century, emerging within a German tradition of using language to critique the production of knowledge.In this volume, Benes suggests that nineteenth-century philologists interpreted language as evidence of ethnic descent and created influential myths of cultural origin around the perceived starting points of their mother tongue. She argues that the origin paradigm so prevalent in German linguistic thought reinforced the historical and ethnic focus of German nationhood, with important implications for German theologians, cultural critics, philosophers, and racial theorists. ""In Babel's Shadow"" also contextualizes the importance of linguistics to modern cultural studies by arguing that the cultural significance attributed to language in twentieth-century French philosophy dates to the late eighteenth century and has clear precedents in theology. Benes links the German tradition of reflecting on the autonomous powers of language to the work of the fathers of structuralist and poststructuralist thought, Ferdinand de Saussure and Friedrich Nietzsche.""In Babel's Shadow"" makes clear that comparative philology helped make language an important model and informing metaphor for other modes of thinking in the modern human sciences. Cultural and intellectual historians, scholars of German language and literature, and linguists will enjoy this illuminating volume.

The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context, 1740-1940 (Hardcover): David L Hoyt, Karen Oslund The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context, 1740-1940 (Hardcover)
David L Hoyt, Karen Oslund; Contributions by Tuska Benes, Elisabeth Kaske, Peter K.J. Park, …
R2,693 Discovery Miles 26 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In an age of rising nationalism and expanding colonialism, the science of language has been intimately bound up with questions of immediate political concern. Taken together, the essays in this volume suggest that the emergence of language as an autonomous object of discourse was closely connected with the consolidation of new and sometimes competing forms of political community in the period following the French Revolution and the global spread of European power. This is the common thread running through the seven individual studies gathered here. By deliberately juxtaposing the European, academic configuration of modern linguistic research with the more practical, extra-European activities of missionaries, colonial officials, or East Asian literati, the authors explore the tensions between forms of linguistic knowledge generated in different geopolitical contexts, and suggest ways of thinking about the role of social science in the process of globalization.

The Rebirth of Revelation - German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750-1850 (Hardcover): Tuska Benes The Rebirth of Revelation - German Theology in an Age of Reason and History, 1750-1850 (Hardcover)
Tuska Benes
R1,879 R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Save R459 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite being a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the idea of revelation was deeply discredited over the course of the Enlightenment. The post-Enlightenment restoration of revelation among German religious thinkers is a fascinating yet underappreciated moment in modern efforts to navigate between reason and faith. The Rebirth of Revelation compares Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish reflections on revelation from 1750 to 1850 and asserts that a strategic transformation in the term's meaning secured its relevance for the modern age. Tuska Benes argues that "propositional" revelation, understood as the infallible dispensation of doctrine, gave way to revelation as a subjective process of inner transformation or the historical disclosure of divine being in the world. By comparatively approaching the unconventional ways in which Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism have rehabilitated the concept of revelation, The Rebirth of Revelation restores theology to a central place in modern European intellectual history.

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