The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 How to Talk to Anybody

How to Talk to Anybody About Anything

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"A horrifyingly comic novel of ideas with its fingers jammed into the light-socket of the age" — Guardian

Pecola Breedlove

The Search for the Perfect Language - Making of Europe book-new-arrivals-2025-03-01 How to Talk to AnybodyThe idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history. From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance, it was widely believed that the language spoken