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Free Download Michael J. Thompson, "The Specter of Babel: A Reconstruction of Political Judgment"
English | ISBN: 1438480369 | 2021 | 363 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of Babel, Michael J. Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that can help resuscitate critical citizenship and democratic life. At the center of the book are two arguments. The first is that modern practical and political philosophy has made a postmetaphysical turn that is unable to guard against the effects of social power on consciousness and the deliberative powers of citizens. The second is that an alternative path toward a critical social ontology can provide a framework for a new theory of ethics and politics. This critical social ontology looks at human sociality not as mere intersubjectivity or communication, but rather as constituted by the shapes that our social-relational structures take as well as the kinds of purposes and ends toward which our social lives are organized. Only by calling these into question, Thompson boldly argues, can we once again attempt to revitalize social critique and democratic politics.

Free Download After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation By George Steiner
1998 | 560 Pages | ISBN: 0192880934 | EPUB | 1 MB
When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, he finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and territory, noting that every people has in its language a unique body of shared secrecy. With this provocative thesis he analyzes every aspect of translation from fundamental conditions of interpretation to the most intricate of linguistic constructions. For the long-awaited second edition, Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, and wrote a new preface setting the work in the present context of hermeneutics, poetics, and translation studies. This new edition brings the bibliography up to the present with substantially updated references, including much Russian and Eastern European material. Like the towering figures of Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault, Steiner’s work is central to current literary thought. After Babel, Third Edition is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the debates raging in the academy today.

Free Download Edmund Blair Bolles, "Babel’s Dawn: A Natural History of the Origins of Speech"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 1619020092, 158243641X | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.3 mb
Describes the evolutionary history of language, tracing the history of the first words, phrases, and sentences, arguing that the human ability to speak derives from a need that is not necessary for other species.

Free Download Bodie Hodge, "Tower of Babel"
English | ISBN: 0890517150 | 2013 | 272 pages | EPUB, PDF | 18 MB + 11 MB
The Tower of Babel: The Cultural History of Our Ancestors reveals our shared ancestry as never before! Many are familiar with the Biblical account of Babel, but after the dispersal, there was a void beyond Biblical history until empires like Rome and Greece arose. Now, discover the truth of these people groups and their civilizations that spread across the earth and trace their roots back to Babel as well as to the sons and grandsons of Noah.

Free Download The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language by Keith Kahn-Harris
English | November 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1785787373, 1785788957 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 9.2 MB
A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point

Free Download Samuel L. Boyd, "Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy"
English | ISBN: 1506480675 | 2023 | 325 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ideology of governance as well as advances in biblical studies, Boyd shows how the Tower of Babel was not originally about a tower, Babylon, or the advent of multilingualism, at least in the earliest phases of the history and literary context of the story. Rather, the narrative was a critique against the Assyrian empire using themes of human overreach found in many places in Genesis 1-11.

Free Download Beyond Babel: Religion and Linguistic Pluralism
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031421264 | 349 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This volume is the first attempt to explicitly investigate how the multiplicity of religions and forms of spirituality interconnect with the multiplicities of language, such as digital lingo and the language of science. This book analyzes how religious and linguistic multiplicities become a pluralism, that is, how they enter into polyphonic relations, as well as how they interconnect, grow together, and why they often clash. The contributors are renown international scholars working in interreligious dialogue, philosophy and sociology of religion, history of religious arts, and the crossroads of religion and science.