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• Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music

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• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Published by: Dartmouth College Press
• Series: Collected Writings of Rousseau
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• pp. vii-viii
• Chronology of Works in Volume 7
• Introduction
• pp. xiii-xlii
• Note on the Text
• pp. xliii-xliv
• Plan Regarding New Signs for Music
• Letter to the Mercure on a New System of Musical Notation
• Dissertation on Modern Music
• Letter on Italian and French Opera
• Letter on “Omphale” (Grimm)
• pp. 106-114
• Remarks on the Subject of the Letter by M. Grimm on “Omphale” (Raynal)
• pp. 115-120
• Letter to M. Grimm on the Subject of the Remarks Added to His Letter on “Omphale”
• pp. 121-132
• “Notice” to Rinaldo da Capua’s La Zingara
• pp. 133-180
• Letter from a Symphonist of the Royal Academy of Music to His Comrades in the Orchestra
• pp. 134-140
• Letter on French Music
• pp. 141-174
• Observations on Our Instinct for Music and on Its Principle (Rameau)
• pp. 175-197
• Articles from the Encyclopedia
• pp. 198-221
• Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia (Rameau)
• pp. 222-250
• Continuation of the Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia (Rameau)
• pp. 251-259
• On the Principle of Melody, or Response to the “Errors on Music”
• pp. 260-270
• Examination of Two Principles Advanced by M. Rameau in His Brochure Entitled: “Errors on Music in the Encyclopedia”
• pp. 271-288
• Essay on the Origin of Languages
• pp. 289-332
• Pronunciation
• pp. 333-336
• On Theatrical Imitation
• pp. 337-350
• The Levite of Ephraïm
• pp. 351-365
• Dictionary of Music
• pp. 366-485
• Letter to Mr. Burney and Fragments of Observations on Gluck’s “Alceste”
• pp. 486-505
• Extract from a Response by the Underlaborer to His Frontman Concerning a Piece from Gluck’s “Orfeo”
• pp. 506-510
• Appendix: “Enfin, il est en ma puissance,” from Lully’s Armide
• pp. 511-514
• pp. 515-604
• pp. 605-610

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On the Origin of Language

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder

186 pages | 5.25 x 8.00 | © 1986

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What is the reality of human language? How does it relate to the essential being of man and the realization of his multifarious capabilities and potentials in the various domains of life and existence in this world? These are certain issues whose investigation has become more than ever relevant in our contemporary contexts. This paper is an attempt to search and shed light on some aspects of this matter, which I believe should be taken up in a much more comprehensive manner by more competent and knowledgeable persons. Prior to developing an Islamic discourse on the nature and reality of language, I think it would be worthwhile to dwell a bit upon the role and significance accorded to language in our contemporary world. Fundamental limitation of the western methodology in linguistics Contemporary debates on language revolve around many crucial issues even including the question on whether there exists anything called a language at all. This question has arisen in the scientific study of language called linguistics due to an important historical reason related to the emergence of modern science. The western scientific tradition has first experienced the separation of empirical science from philosophy and the consequent subjugation of philosophy to a role of interpreting the findings of the scientific 'discoveries'. This handicapped science, which feigned supremacy as man's highest and most trustworthy intellectual pursuit, with its strictly materialistic and empiricist methodology and goals accorded matter or physicality the absolute referential status of reality. The biological, chemical and other types of properties derived 'scientific' legitimacy from the 'fundamental' reality of matter. It is as if reality springs out from physical matter. The various dimensions of reality emerge out from the various levels of organization of matter. Thus even mind and language is described "the necessary result of a particular organization of matter". Thus the history of scientific progress and the concomitant proliferation into the multifarious disciplines and specialisations has totally imbibed to this spirit of the shadow of physical reality reflected in many other derivative dimensions. Thus the tradition of modern science instituted for a minor aspect of reality, i.e. matter, fundamental and foundational relevance and turned the process of intellectual enquiry upside down, that is, rather than from the source of divine guidance through derivative ideas into the minor details of existence including matter, to that from matter to other dimensions. Over riding this spirit of the upside down science is the Cartesian phantom of separation of mind and matter.

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