Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-371) and index.
Contents
From Adam to Confusio Linguarum -- The Kabbalistic Pansemioticism -- The perfect language of Dante -- The Ars Magna of Raymond Lull -- The monogenetic hypothesis and the mother tongues -- Kabbalism and Lullism in modern culture -- The perfect language of images -- Magic language -- Polygraphies -- A Priori philosophical languages -- George Dalgarno -- John Wilkins -- Francis Lodwick -- From Leibniz to the Encyclopédie -- Philosophic language from the enlightenment to today -- The international auxiliary languages -- Conclusion.
