Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics Quotes

“Earlier theories of language, grounded in the duality of body and soul, had guaranteed the rational self a life outside of language. Enlightenment sensualism erases that option. To stop signifying is to regress to the dumb, unconscious body. The subject is suspended between a primal oblivion and the artificial web of symbols.”
― Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics

“Earlier theories of language, grounded in the duality of body and soul, had guaranteed the rational self a life outside of language. Enlightenment sensualism erases that option. To stop signifying is to regress to the dumb, unconscious body. The subject in suspended between a primal oblivion and the artificial web of symbols.”
― Stephen Rumph, Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics