Lucretius and the bat with blue eyes : explaining the universe with the alphabet /
"A look at Lucretius's De rerum natura (The Nature of Things), both in general and at what he specifically had to say about language: from the specificity of something like his analogy of atoms with letters of the alphabet to the fear we encounter when dealing with a potentially meaningles...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "A look at Lucretius's De rerum natura (The Nature of Things), both in general and at what he specifically had to say about language: from the specificity of something like his analogy of atoms with letters of the alphabet to the fear we encounter when dealing with a potentially meaningless universe (the foundation of modern linguistics rests, after all, on Saussure's arbitrariness of the sign)"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 130 pages ; 18 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262554015 0262554011 |