Explaining Mantras: Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra (Religion in History, Society and Culture: Outstanding Dissertations)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 19, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780415966351
First sentence: Language belongs in its origin to the age of the most rudimentary form of psychology: we find ourselves in the midst of a rude fetishism when we call to mind the basic presuppositions of the metaphysics of languagewhich is to say, of reason.