The Kingdom of Speech
A Science, Psychology, History book. All cosmogonies, whether the Apaches or Charles Darwins, faced the same problem. They were histories or, better...
The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the...
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As Sigmund Freud would put it thirty-five years later in similar circumstances, Many enemies, much honor. Darwin Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech // If a monkey has become a manwhat may not a man become? Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech // All cosmogonies, whether the Apaches or Charles Darwins, faced the same problem. They were histories or, better said, stories of things that had occurred in a primordial past, long before there existed anyone capable of recording them. The Apaches scorpion and Darwins cells in that warm pool somewhere were by definition educated guesses. Darwin, Tom Wolfe, The Kingdom of Speech //
Maybe Tom Wolfe should be commended for diving headfirst into a complicated, even esoteric, debate raging inside linguistics and exposing it to a far larger audience than ever before. But praise for this book should really end there. As someone with some formal training in linguistics and more extensive exploration of the field as a... Wonderful to have Tom Wolfe back and setting fire to sacred cows. This is a bit like his classic attacks on pretentious flim flammery From Bauhaus to Our House and The Painted Word but it also shares a lot of characteristics with snappy popular history like The Right Stuff or even popular science histories like Longitude. The language... I normally would give this a 4 star rating, but I noticed there are a lot of pained 1 star reviews, so I upped my rating to a 5 to bring back some balance to the total average.Wolfe is generally in good standing with the liberal defenders of evolution who are for the most part all for his criticism of investment bankers (The Bonfire...
