This discussion - which is interesting, btw, keep it up - reminds me that one of the strangest and perhaps most significant intellectual developments of romanticism was the founding and extension of linguistics - following the discoveries of Jones (i.e. the discovery of Indo-European) in the middle of the eighteenth century - and the equation (that still haunts a lot of intellectual discourse) between an idea of language and the idea of the self-expression of a group, that language and culture are somewhat equatable.
I'm looking forward to the "Opinion of Postmodernism" thread
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