During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene
polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines--nationalist, Marxist, and religious--and …

Eighteenth-century thinkers were fascinated by the ways in which the printed and the
spoken word were forming a modern “public.” One of the the most richly ambivalent …

Scholarly interest in the emergence of a “public sphere” and “public opinion” in eighteenth-
century Europe remains strong, and with good reason. The ideological construct of a …

The title states a thesis: that what has been termed the orality/literacy debate—referring to
the work of Marshall McLuhan, Eric Havelock, Jack Goody, Walter J. Ong and others1 …

Abstract The writings of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) foreshadowed several of the
dominant theories of sociology, social psychology, aesthetics, linguistics and literary theory …

Als die Plansprache Esperanto 1887 veröffentlicht wurde, blieb den Zeitgenossen
weitgehend verborgen, dass ihr Erfinder Ludwig Lejzer Zamenhof (1859-1917) sie stets …

Esperanto: Sprache - Literatur - Gemeinschaft Page 1 Viola Beckmann Esperanto: Geschichte
und Vision einer Kunstsprache Sprache – Literatur – Gemeinschaft Dissertation zur Erlangung …