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9780801872440 Academic Inspection Copy

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century
  • ISBN-13: 9780801872440
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Stephen G. Alter
  • Price: AUD $77.99
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2003
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of science [PDX]
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In the nineteenth century, philology–especially comparative philology–made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.

""The emphasis throughout on how analogies can influence belief is important and persuasive. All told, Alter has provided a rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life.""

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