Darwinism and the Linguistic Image Jan Campito Combining lived experience with scientific

Combining lived experience with scientific research and practical advice

astutely edited and introduced by noted communitarian scholar Lawrence Foster

Following three years in an industrial laboratory

Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image Jan Campito Combining lived experience with scientificIn the nineteenth century, philologyespecially comparative philologymade impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common descent theory of evolution.