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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ? INTRODUCTION v Chapter 1 - THE SCIENCE OF ETYMOLOGY: FROM 'SOUND' LAWS TO PLAUSIBLE CONJECTURES 1 1. Etymologizing before 1900 2. The W¿rter und Sachen Experience: Etymology between 1900 and 1950 18 3. De Saussure and The Arbitrariness of Signs 4. Obscure Words: Etymologizing from 1950 to the Present Chapter 2 - NOMEN EST OMEN: ETYMOLOGY AND ALLEGORY 49 Chapter 3 - THE NAMES OF HEROES: GREEK AND ALEXANDRIAN ETYMOLOGIZING 61 1. Etymology and Onomastics 2. Etymologies in the Cratylus 3. Alexandrian Etymologizing Chapter 4 - QUARTUS GRADUS ETYMOLOGIAE: THE ROMAN CONTRIBUTION 85 1. Etymology in Rome 2. Cicero and Augustine 3. Varro's Contribution Chapter 5 - ALLEGORICAL ETYMOLOGY AS A DENKFORM: THE MIDDLE AGES OF ISIDORE 106 1. The Etymologiae and The Seven Liberal Arts 2. Isidore's Definition of Etymology Chapter 6 - EMITHOLOGIA: ETYMOLOGY?S RIDDLES FROM 1500 TO 1700 135 Chapter 7 - REDEFINING DIFFERENCE: ALLEGORICAL ETYMOLOGY IN VICO, DERRIDA, AND DE MAN 155 1. Derrida's Pharmakon 2. Hermes Thrice-Greatest 3. Chapter 8 - ALTERNATIVE ROUTES 177 WORKS CITED 216
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Language and languages -- Etymology -- History.
Allegory.