Eonix Papers

Age of Enlightenment

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The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel by Nicholas Ostler Walker & Co., 352 pp., $28 While English is the most widely-spoken lingua franca in history, so-called common or working languages can be much less pervasive. Elamite, for example, was the submerged administrative language of the Persian Empire in the sixth century [...]

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Frederick Engels Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy The funny thing here is that Marx/Engels passed through the most brilliant era of philosophy in world history, and ended up with a stupid materialism and dishwater Darwinism. I hold no brief for Hegel’s ‘self-development of the concept’, but his science fiction actually tackles [...]

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http://darwiniana.com/2010/11/15/booknotes-from-democrats-to-kings/

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