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" The search for the perfect language / "
Umberto Eco ; translated by James Fentress.
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BL
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631683
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Ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea.English
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Eco, Umberto.
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The search for the perfect language /\ Umberto Eco ; translated by James Fentress.
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Oxford, UK ;Cambridge, Mass., USA :: Blackwell,, 1995.
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Making of Europe
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x, 385 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0631174656 (acid-free paper)
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: 9780631174653 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-371) and index.
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| Contents
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From Adam to "Confusio Linguarum" -- The kabbalistic pansemioticism -- The perfect language of Dante -- The "Ars Magna" of Raymond Lull -- The monogenetic hypothesis and the mother of tongues -- Kabbalism and Lullism in modern culture -- The perfect language of images -- Magic language -- Polygraphies -- A "Priori" philosophical languages -- George Dalgarno -- John Wilkins -- Francis Lodwick -- From Leibniz to the "Encyclopedie" -- Philosophic language from the Enlightenment to today -- The international auxiliary languages -- Conclusion.
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Language, Universal.
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Europe, Languages.
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P106.E2813 1995
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