The Search for the Perfect Language
by Eco, Umberto (Translated by James Fentress)
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London: Fontana, 1997 0006863787. Softcover. VG, Previous owner's neat signature on front end page. Otherwise no inscriptions or annotations. 385 pages including index. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an investigation into the history of this idea. .
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- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
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- Title
- The Search for the Perfect Language
- Author
- Eco, Umberto (Translated by James Fentress)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006863787
- ISBN 13
- 9780006863786
- Publisher
- London: Fontana, 1997 0006863787
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Perfect Language Renaissance Garden of Eden Dark Ages Linguistics Semiotics QSE
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