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Search for the Perfect Language, The

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Author: Eco, Umberto
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Publisher: Fontana Press
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Publication Year: 1997-07-01
ISBN#: 978-0-00-686378-6
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Pages: 400
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Language: English

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Genre: Philosophy / General
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Series: The Making of Europe
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From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an investigation into the history of this idea.