Author: OLENDER, MAURICE
Title: The Languages of Paradise Aryans and Semites a Match Made in Heaven
Description: New York: Other Press, 2003. Revised and augmented edition. First Printing; Paperback. ISBN: 1590510259. 5.5 X 0.75 X 8.25 inches; xiii, 213 pages; Soft cover has tan spine with brown lettering. Very faint rubbing to covers; appears as if unused. Pages are clean and tight. Originally published In 1992. This is the first revised and augmented edition. "Michel Foucault observed that "the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy." In this penetrating exploration of the origin of the discipline, Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history, and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century. "A riveting book about a difficult but important subject. Olender plunges into the scientific roots of modern racial myths with verve, wit, and remarkable erudition, producing both a dense, powerful monograph in the history of philology and a fascinating essay on the roots of twentieth-century errors and horrors." -Anthony Grafton, Princeton University "The Languages of Paradise is heavenly to read. What languages did the first humans speak? Maurice Olender traces the answers of major scholars to that question from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, showing how rival claims for Hebrew and Sanskrit connect with fundamental ideas about race and culture. Rarely have the intricacies of comparative philology been made so accessible to the common reader as in Maurice Olender's fluid prose, given sparkling translation by Arthur Goldhammer." Notes; bibliography; index.. Fine .

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