How to do things with signs: Rousseau’s ancient performative idiom

In various works, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ascribes to the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Israelites a mostly visual, gestural, and non-semantic idiom of communication: the language of signs. The article examines the performative aspects of this imagined ancient language, while situating it within the con...

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1. Verfasser: Lifschitz, AS
Format: Journal article
Veröffentlicht: Imprint Academic 2016