Papers from the Conference 'The Fragile Tradition', Cambridge 2002: German literature, history and the nationP. Lang, 2004 - Europe, German-speaking |
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... language and nationhood went beyond a recognition of how participation in a discursive community fostered feelings of cohesion , however . Early nationalists believed words and linguistic structures did more than transmit a German ...
... language and nationhood went beyond a recognition of how participation in a discursive community fostered feelings of cohesion , however . Early nationalists believed words and linguistic structures did more than transmit a German ...
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8 Specifically , Herder's treatise located language in the soul of the Volk as it responded to a long - standing debate on the origin of language . He denied Étienne Bonnot de Condillac's claim that nature could inspire abstract ...
8 Specifically , Herder's treatise located language in the soul of the Volk as it responded to a long - standing debate on the origin of language . He denied Étienne Bonnot de Condillac's claim that nature could inspire abstract ...
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... Language , moreover , was the privileged medium through which individuals and communities realized their inner essences . " Herder held that each national tongue expressed the soul or inner spirit of the people that spoke it . He linked ...
... Language , moreover , was the privileged medium through which individuals and communities realized their inner essences . " Herder held that each national tongue expressed the soul or inner spirit of the people that spoke it . He linked ...
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Simon Ward | 13 |
Imagined Communities | 15 |
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