There are introductions and essays by Elizabeth Friedmann, John Nolan, Amber Vogel, and William Harmon. Cornell's web-site contains more information about the exhibition and collection. For this occasion, both a guide to the collection and an exhibition catalog were made available, and most restrictions on scholarly access to the Collection were permanently lifted. Its claim that language teaches the 'possibility of a spiritual unity of minds' and 'opens up the interior of existence' is profound. Focusing on permanence rather than change in language, Jackson offers the psychological insight that maturity results from one's attitude to words as response to one's existence.
Concrete examples clarify the thorough formulation of theoretical groundwork. . . .
Strongly recommended for libraries serving students of all levels. A New Foundation for the Definition of Words .