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Author Eco, Umberto.

Title The search for the perfect language / Umberto Eco ; translated by James Fentress.

Publication Info. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1997.

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 Moore Stacks  P106 .E2813 1997    Available  ---
Description x, 385 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series The making of Europe
Making of Europe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371) and index.
Contents 1. From Adam to Confusio linguarum -- 2. The Kabbalistic pansemioticism -- 3. The perfect language of Dante -- 4. The Ars magna of Raymond Lull -- 5. The monogenetic hypothesis and the mother tongues -- 6. Kabbalism and lullism in modern culture -- 7. The perfect language of images -- 8. Magic language -- 9. Polygraphies -- 10. A priori philosophical languages -- 11. George Dalgarno -- 12. John Wilkins -- 13. Francis Lodwick -- 14. From Leibniz to the Encyclopédie -- 15. Philosophic language from the Enlightenment to today -- 16. The international auxiliary languages -- 17. Conclusion.
Subject Language and languages.
Language and languages.
Language, Universal.
Language, Universal.
Language and culture -- Europe.
Language and culture.
Europe.
Added Title Ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94062615
ISBN 0631205101 paperback $19.95

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