1. From Adam to Confusio Linguarum

• Genesis 2, 10, 11
• Before and After Europe
• Side-effects
• A Semiotic Model for Natural Language

2. The Kabbalistic Pansemioticism

• The Reading of the Torah
• Cosmic Permutability and the Kabbala of Names
• The Mother Tongue

3. The Perfect Language of Dante

• Latin and the Vernacular
• Language and Linguistci Behaviour
• The First Gift to Adam
• Dante and Universal Grammar
• The Illustrious Vernacular
• Dante and Abulafia

4. The Ars Magna of Raymond Lull

• The Elements of the Ars Combinatoria
• The Alphabet and the Four Figures
• The Arbor Scientarium
• The Concordia Universalis of Nicholas of Cusa

5. The Monogenetic Hypothesis and the Mother Tongues

• The Return to Hebrew
• Postel's Universalistic Utopia
• The Etymological Furor
• Conventionalism, Epicureanism and Polygenesis
• The Pre-Hebraic Language
• The Nationalistic Hypotheses
• The Indo-European Hypothesis
• Philosophers against Monogeneticism
• A Dream that Refused to Die
• New Prospects for the Monogenetic Hypothesis

6. Kabbalism and Lullism in Modern Culture

• Magic Names and Kabbalistic Hebrew
• Kabbalism and Lullism in the Steganographies
• Lullian Kabbalism
• Bruno: Ars Combinatoria and Infinite Worlds
• Infinite Songs and Locutions

7. The Prefect Language of Images

• Horapollo's Hieroglyphica
• The Egyptian Alphabet
• Kircher's Egyptology
• Kircher's Chinese
• The Kircherian Ideology
• Later Critics
• The Egyptian vs. the Chinese Way
• Images for Aliens

8. Magic Language

• Hypotheses
• Dee's Magic Language
• Perfection and Secrecy

• Kircher's Polygraphy
• Beck and Becher
• First Attempts at a Content Organization - Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognition

• Bacon
• Comenius
• Descartes and Mersenne
• The English Debate on Character and Traits
• Primitives and Organization of Content

12. John Wilkins

• The Tables and the Grammar
• The Real Characters
• The Dictionary: Synonyms, Periphrases, Metaphors
• An Open Classification?
• The Limits of Classification
• The Hypertext of Wilkins

14. From Leibniz to the Encyclopedie

• Characteristica and the Calculus
• The Problem of Primitives
• The Encyclopedia and the Alphabet of Thought
• Blind Thought
• The I Ching and the Binary Calculus
• Side-effects
• The 'Library' of Leibniz and the Encyclopedie

• Eighteenth-century Projects
• The Last Flowering of Philosophic Languages
• Space Languages
• Artificial Intelligence
• Some Ghosts of the Perfect Language

• The Mixed Systems
• The Babel of A Posteriori Languages
• Esperanto
• An Optimized Grammar
• Theoretical Objections and Counter-objections
• The Political Possibilities of an IAL
• Limits and Effability of an IAL

• Translation
• The Gift to Adam

• Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognition
• The hierarchical nature of concepts?
• Features of concept maps
• Translations between biology and sociology - formalism: a linking theme between mathematics, computation, and cultural theory
• Trees and graphs
• The librarian's problem
• Alchemy and early scientific classification
• Stewart, I., & Cohen, J. (1997) "Figments of reality: the evolution of the curious mind". Their discussion of simplex, complex and multiplex seems to lead in a similar direction to Eco's polylinguism.
• Alan D. Sokal
• Frankenstein's Footsteps
• Sociological approaches to ecological uncertainty
• Introduction to the King James Bible
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