Humboldt, ou le sens du langage,
Jürgen Trabant
This book had a crucial role to play in relaunching the reading of Humbodt in France, and beyond the borders of German-speaking lands. Trabant focuses on the way in which human beings are educated by language into becoming sensitive to the world. Humboldt’s eternal problem of the relationship between words and worlds is explored, and Trabant lays great emphasis upon the fact that we learn not only to think but to feel in language. This is what makes the pun on ‘sens’ – meaning both sensory perception – and meaning, so poignant.
Professor Jürgen Trabant lectured for most of his career at the Freie Universität, in Berlin, on German and Romance Languages. He is one of the all time great specialists of Humboldt, and continues to actively promote his vision of language as a mode of perceiving and understanding the world. He has held posts abroad at Stanford, University of California, Davis, and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, in Leipzig und in Limoges. Among his many published works we can list the following ones:
• Apeliotes oder Der Sinn der Sprache. Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprach-Bild. Fink, München 1986. (Franz., Jap. Übersetzungen)
• Traditionen Humboldts. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M. 1990 (Korean., Franz. Übersetzungen)
• Neue Wissenschaft von alten Zeichen: Vicos Sematologie. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M. 1994. (Ital., Engl. Übersetzungen)
• Artikulationen. Historische Anthropologie der Sprache. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt/M. 1998..
• Der Gallische Herkules. Über Sprache und Politik in Frankreich und Deutschland. Francke, Tübingen/Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7720-3335-0.
• Mithridates im Paradies. Kleine Geschichte des Sprachdenkens. Beck, München 2003.
• Vico's New Science of Ancient Signs: A Study of Sematology. 2004.
• New Essays on the Origin of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin /New York 2001. (Hrsg. mit Sean Ward)
• Europäisches Sprachdenken von Platon bis Wittgenstein. Beck, München 2006.
• Die Sprache. Beck, München 2009.
• Weltansichten : Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachprojekt. Beck, München 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64021-6.
• Globalesisch oder was? Ein Plädoyer für Europa. Verlag C. H. Beck, München 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65990-4.[1]
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