A Harmony of the Spirits
- Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
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- Sideantal:
- 352
- Udgivet:
- 28. Februar 2017
- Størrelse:
- 155x235x25 mm.
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- 511 g.
- 8-11 hverdage.
- 3. Oktober 2024
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Beskrivelse af A Harmony of the Spirits
In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the "holy experiment." Their belief in hidden yet persistent links between human language and the word of God impelled their vision of a common spiritual idiom. Translation became the search for underlying correspondences between diverse human expressions of the divine and served as a model for reconciliation and inclusiveness. By revealing a mystical quest for unity, Erben presents a compelling counternarrative to monolingualism and Enlightenment empiricism in eighteenth-century America.
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