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"The incalculable influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) on biology, botany, geology, and meteorology deservedly earned him the reputation as the world's most illustrious scientist before Charles Darwin. From 1799 to 1804, Humboldt's breath-taking explorations of Mexico and South America are akin to Europe's second "discovery" of the New World--this time, a scientific one. His Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain is a foundational document about Mexico and its cultures and is still widely consulted by anthropologists, geographers, and historians. In Humboldt's Mexico Myron Echenberg presents a straightforward guide with historical and cultural context to Humboldt's travels in Mexico. Humboldt packed a lifetime of scientific studies into one daunting year, and soon after published a four-volume account of his findings. His adventures range widely from inspections of colonial silver mines, hikes to the summits of volcanoes, meticulous examination of secret Spanish colonial archives in Mexico City, and scientific discussions of archaeological sites of pre-Hispanic Indigenous cultures. Echenberg traces Humboldt's journey, as described in his publications, his diary, and other writings, across the heartland of Mexico, while also pursuing Humboldt's life, his science, his experiences, his influence on scholars of his time and after, and the various efforts by others to honour and at times to denigrate his legacy. Part history, part travelogue, and always highly readable and informative, Humboldt's Mexico is an engaging account of a gifted scientist and visionary that ranges across topics as diverse and broad as the Romantic-era natural history."--

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Die Kehrseite der verschiedenen »Wenden« in den Geisteswissenschaften ist eine symptomatische Abwendung von der Problematik der Sprache. Dies zeugt auf eine negative Weise davon, dass die Sprache auch heute nicht aufgehört hat, das Denken zu provozieren. Durch eine aufmerksame Lektüre philosophischer Texte (von Wilhelm von Humboldt, Roman Jakobson, Niklas Luhmann, Hans-Georg Gadamer und Martin Heidegger) demonstriert Hajnalka Halász, wie die Hinwendung zu Fragen nach der Sprache zugleich radikal Begriffs- und Denksysteme in Frage stellt, auf welche unter anderem Theorien der Kunst, der Literatur, der Kultur, der Medialität und der Gesellschaft aufbauen.

Philosophie du langage --- Humboldt, Wilhelm von --- Jakobson, Roman --- Luhmann, Niklas --- Gadamer, Hans-Georg --- Heidegger, Martin --- Language and languages --- Philosophy --- Luhmann, Niklas, --- Jakobson, Roman, --- Heidegger, Martin, --- von Humboldt, Wilhelm, --- Gadamer, Hans-Georg, --- Philosophie du langage. --- Language and languages - Philosophy --- Luhmann, Niklas, - 1927-1998 --- Jakobson, Roman, - 1896-1982 --- Heidegger, Martin, - 1889-1976 --- von Humboldt, Wilhelm, - Freiherr, - 1767-1835 --- Gadamer, Hans-Georg, - 1900-2002

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The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the sense of telling future events, but in the sense of speaking in the place of another—most often unbeknownst to the speaker herself. In prophetic speech, the confusion of tongues repeats, each time anew, as language takes place unpredictably in more than one voice and more than one tongue at once. Mendicino argues that the relation between translation and prophecy drawn by German Romantic writers fundamentally changes the way we must approach this so-called “Age of Translation.” Whereas major studies of the period have taken as their point of departure the opposition of the familiar and the foreign, Mendicino suggests that Romantic writing provokes the questions: how could one read a language that is not one? And what would such a polyvocal, polyglot language, have to say about philology—both for the Romantics, whose translation projects are most intimately related to their philological preoccupations, and for us? In Prophecies of Language, these questions are pursued through readings of major texts by G.W.F. Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich Hölderlin. These readings show how, when one questions the presupposition of works composed by individual authors in one tongue, these texts disclose more than a monoglot reading yields, namely the “plus” of their linguistic plurality. From such a surplus, each chapter goes on to advocate for a philology that, in and through an inclination toward language, takes neither its unity nor its structure for granted but allows itself to be most profoundly affected, addressed—and afflicted—by it.

Romanticism--Germany. --- Hegel. --- Humboldt. --- Hölderlin. --- Schlegel. --- Translation. --- idealism. --- philology. --- prophecy. --- romanticism. --- PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. --- Romanticism --- German literature --- Translating and interpreting. --- History and criticism.