A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania Paperback - 2017
by Patrick M. Erben
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In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth--first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin--that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the radical English and German Protestants who founded the "holy experiment." Their belief in hidden yet persistent links between human language and the word of God impelled their vision of a common spiritual idiom. Translation became the search for underlying correspondences between diverse human expressions of the divine and served as a model for reconciliation and inclusiveness. By revealing a mystical quest for unity, Erben presents a compelling counternarrative to monolingualism and Enlightenment empiricism in eighteenth-century America.
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- Title A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania
- Author Patrick M. Erben
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
- Date 2017-02-01
- ISBN 9781469633466 / 1469633469
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.98 in (24.38 x 16.26 x 2.49 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011050214
- Dewey Decimal Code 409.748
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