The search for the Adamic language and the emergence of transcultural aspiration in the aftermath of the European maritime discoveries

LE STUDIUM Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018, 2, 21-24

Ewa Lukaszyk1,2, Marie-Luce Demonet3

 

1 LE STUDIUM Institute for Advanced Studies, 45000 Orléans, France

2 University of Warsaw, Poland

3 CESR, University of Tours, France

Abstract

The main hypothesis of this project is connected to the notion of pre-cultural origins of the humanity, situated in the paradisaical reality, not only before the fall, but also before the invention of the human language (Adam naming the animals created by God). The myth of the pre-lapsarian unity of the human kind became crucial to the development of the European relationship with other peoples in the aftermath of the maritime discoveries in the 16th c. The examination of this topic is an important element of the projected transcultural humanities, searching to establish a comprehensive outlook of the cultural inscription and limitations of the human thought.

Keywords

Adamic language
Pre-lapsarian
Transcultural
Universalism
Maritime discoveries
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