A Collège de France coproduction - Doriane Films
Abstract
The aim is to show how Europe, at the very moment when it was losing the two universal languages that had ensured communication within the known world - Greek and Latin - and as the first vulgar languages were appearing, began to wonder about the confusion of languages (by rediscovering the myth of Babel), and about the possibility of a perfect language, began to wonder about the confusion of languages (by rediscovering the myth of Babel), and about the possibility of a perfect language, either by looking back to the lost language of Adam, or by aiming forward to the possibility of a philosophical language a priori, and afterwards to an international lingua franca a posteriori. This quest has produced " collateral effects ", to such an extent that many aspects of our contemporary culture are still subject to these discussions.
