{"id":66170,"date":"2025-05-29T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66170"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:57:44","slug":"language-is-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/language-is-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Language is Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"From out of past cultural epochs up through to the present day, the evolution of human language is truly a wonder to behold. The \u2018I\u2019 became flesh, granting the potential to know the spirit itself. The new Tower of Babel can now be built.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLanguage is magic. It never ceases to amaze me how a cat intones one single syllable, \u201cmeow\u201d but can express such a range of feelings and intentions. The archetypal principle of language is the syllable: a being expresses inner experience through intoning a single sound. This is the principle of the primal syllable. It harkens back to the archetypal principle of primal sound (\u201cUr-Sound\u201d) itself and to the primal emergence of speech and language, which began an entirely new stage in the evolution of humanity. \u201cThe Atlantean epoch is als<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From out of past cultural epochs up through to the present day, the evolution of human language is truly a wonder to behold. The \u2018I\u2019 became flesh, granting the potential to know the spirit itself. The new Tower of Babel can now be built. Language is magic. It never ceases to amaze me how a cat intones one single syllable, \u201cmeow\u201d but can express such a range of feelings and intentions. The archetypal principle of language is the syllable: a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12175,"featured_media":65803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8788,9110,8793],"tags":[11658,11659,8814],"class_list":["post-66170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-en","category-literary-arts","category-philosophy","tag-ausgabe-20-2025-en","tag-english-issue-22-2025","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}