Title: Language's Wound: Herder, Philoctetes, and the Origin of Speech
Abstract: Let us, first, pursue the question of the origin: Haben die Menschen, ihren Naturfahigkeiten tiberlaBen, sich selbst Sprache erfinden konnen?' Johann Gottfried Herder answers this question, proposed by the Prussian Academy in 1769,2 with his Abhandlung uiber den Ursprung der Sprache, an essay that would win for its author a desired prize and recognition, and would be published by the Academy in 1772. Herder's work leaves little doubt about his anthropological interests, and he proceeds, indeed, to stress them with his very first sentence. This sentence is highlighted typographically by spaced letters that already provide the image of continuity and distancing
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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