In Babel's shadow
Subtitle: language, philology, and the nation in nineteenth-century Germany
By: Tuska Benes.
Series: Kritik : German literary theory and cultural studies
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780814333044
Subjects: German language -- 19th century; German language -- Philology; Nationalism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Indo-European languages -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Words alive! constructivist theories of language in late-Enlightenment Prussia; title: Urheimat Asien: German nationhood and the "Indo-Germanic" language family; title: Urvolk Germania: Historicizing language and the nation in German philology; title: Urbild Hellas: Classical philology, language, and the ancient Greeks; title: Comparative linguistics: Race, religion, and historical agency; title: Speakers and subjectivity: Toward a crisis of linguistic historicism.