Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Making language and making it safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Locke
- 3 Creating modernity's others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England: antiquarian and philological inflections
- 4 The critical foundations of national epic and the rhetoric of authenticity: Hugh Blair and the Ossian controversy
- 5 Language, poetry, and Volk in eighteenth-century Germany: Johann Gottfried Herder's construction of tradition
- 6 Scientizing textual production in the service of the nation: the Brothers Grimm and Germanic philology
- 7 The making of an American textual tradition: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's Indian researches
- 8 The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas's cosmopolitan charter for anthropology
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Making language and making it safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Locke
- 3 Creating modernity's others in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England: antiquarian and philological inflections
- 4 The critical foundations of national epic and the rhetoric of authenticity: Hugh Blair and the Ossian controversy
- 5 Language, poetry, and Volk in eighteenth-century Germany: Johann Gottfried Herder's construction of tradition
- 6 Scientizing textual production in the service of the nation: the Brothers Grimm and Germanic philology
- 7 The making of an American textual tradition: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's Indian researches
- 8 The foundation of all future researches: Franz Boas's cosmopolitan charter for anthropology
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Voices of ModernityLanguage Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003