The Search for the Perfect Language

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By (author): "Umberto Eco"
Publish Date: 1993
The Search for the Perfect Language
ISBN0006863787
ISBN139780006863786
AsinThe Search for the Perfect Language
Original titleLa ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea
SeriesThe Making of Europe
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.