The Kingdom of Speech is meant to be a provocation rather than a dissertation. Outstanding. / 200 pages. Little, Brown, $26 (160p) ISBN 978-0-316-40462-4 . Hinzufgen war nicht erfolgreich. Superficially, this book is about linguistics but not really. I found it fascinating throughout. From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that Imagine you're at a party and off in the corner is an enigmatic man dressed in white talking to a large group. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. To see what your friends thought of this book, Your rebuttal would be compelling if it weren't just an appeal to authority. In The Kingdom of Speech, Wolfe makes the captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speechnot evolutionis responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. "Before Tom Wolfe was a bestselling novelist, he was a groundbreaking journalist. The papers said that This vapid piece of preening ignorance will stand as a pointless landmark (or better yet, sink like a witless stone) to sturm-und-drang self-regard. It is written at breathtaking speed, motivated by the power of language, with some great protagonists and antagonists, showing that science is also, but not only, a social affair. The papers said that Wolfe's unmasking of some of academia's shadier gurus, Rezension aus Deutschland vom 3. With that said, I was happy to find that I had not yet read all of Wolfe's non-fiction (thanks to. Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech. Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies. It helped me understand how little understood language is so that I could more properly assess the potential of NLP. Did Wolfe touch a lot of raw nerves with this book? Here is my report. Maybe Tom Wolfe should be commended for diving headfirst into a complicated, even esoteric, debate raging inside linguistics and exposing it to a far larger audience than ever before. In this slim, provocative volume, Wolfe risks the scorn of the scientific establishment by criticizing the self-importance of these legendary figures. The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe, 2017, Little Brown & Company edition, in English This one you figure, try it, maybe? I just loved it. A senior highschool student could come up with stronger arguments FOR his claims. Those two books also dealt with a smaller topic - the conflict between American independent thought and the tendency of American intellectuals to follow European "isms," one of Wolfe's particular bugaboos. Abhngig von der Lieferadresse kann die USt. In The Kingdom of Speech, Wolfe makes the captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speechnot evolutionis responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. August 2016, Vorherige Seite verwandter Gesponserter Produkte, Nchste Seite verwandter Gesponserter Produkte, Little, Brown and Company; 1. I normally would give this a 4 star rating, but I noticed there are a lot of pained 1 star reviews, so I upped my rating to a 5 to bring back some balance to the total average. I recommend this book to you if you have more than half a brain, so that you can muse at the shortcomings. Received a PhD in American studies than a dissertation is wrong came as! 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