The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. He also used way too many ellipses and said "solar plexus" an unreasonable number of times in such a short book. "Before Tom Wolfe was a bestselling novelist, he was a groundbreaking journalist. Word does what Wolfe claims for them; he has a magnificent vision of their power, but of the origin of speech he tells us nothing. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. This comment about Darwin’s view of speech stuck out (emphasis mine): He could not figure out what it was. He also used way too many ellipses and said "solar plexus" an unreasonable number of times in such a short book. The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. It was man’s use of speech to defy God that caused the destruction of the tower of Babel and the subsequent linguistic divisions. So after the silence of a century, during which grave scholars had admitted that they knew nothing of the origin of speech, the idea grew that speech was the ultimate cultural accomplishment, the tool that enabled man to master nature. Remember that scientific theories are coherent statements of verified, measured and replicated facts that are related in an effort to find out how things work. This is not because he disagrees with the standard theory, but because his arguments consist of claiming there is no proof. It helped me understand how little understood language is so that I could more properly assess the potential of NLP. He's got a remarkable gift with words, so it is not remarkable that he would turn is attention in this book to the subject of how we got them. A senior highschool student could come up with stronger arguments FOR his claims. The Kingdom of Speech is best read, then, with Wolfe not just as a narrator-historian but as a character. After that a great silence on the question ensued until Noam Chomsky came on the scene proposing the existence in the brain, or as a function of the brain,  of a language organ containing a basic universal grammar. That seems fitting, because The Kingdom of Speech fits in well with From Bauhaus to Our House, Wolfe’s scathing critique of modern architecture, and The Painted Word, his 1975 lambasting of the modern art. I used it as additional ammun. We are made to laugh at their self-inflicted ridiculousness before they shuffle off the stage in shame. The Kingdom of Speech is traversing the right territory, but it is too loose, too glib, and, in a few places, too glaringly flawed to be that book. Slaughters holy scientific cows left, right and center. Physically, man is a sad case. This comment about Darwin’s view of speech stuck out (emphasis mine): He could not figure out what it was. not just long-term but any plans, even for something to do five minutes from now.”, The greatest achievement of words has been “the creation of an inner self, and ego. Speech and only speech gives man the  ability to ask questions about his own life.”    “Only speech gives man the power to dream up religions and gods to animate them, and in extraordinary cases to change history, with words alone and without political backing.”  Jesus, Muhammad, John Calvin, Marx, and Darwin. The Kingdom of Speech is not a journal paper but a mass market book intended to open these questions for the general public's enlightenment. Tom Wolfe wrote a book on a subject where he has no knowledge. “Every sentence stands alone and refers to a single event.”  “The Piranha language comes from their culture, not from any pre-existing mental template.”   This claim was devastating to Chomsky’s theory, and a war of words between Chomsky and Everett ensued. He's got a remarkable gift with words, so it is not remarkable that he would turn is attention in this book to the subject of how we got them. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. (I mean, these gods are worshipped so devotedly so as to make you ill). Another key shortfall: speech and language are not the same thing! I recommend this book to you if you have more than half a brain, so that you can muse at the shortcomings. Evolution has such mountains of evidence backing it--from biological, geological, paleontological, medical and chemical bases--that any book purporting to declare that speech is somehow an event, or phenomenon, apart from evolution is, to be blunt, hokum. . Language, speech, still an enigma to some degree even after our wandering this rock for as long as we have. This book forms a loose trilogy with "The Painted Word," Wolfe's dissection of art and art criticism, and "From Bauhaus to Our House," his similar evisceration of architectural theory. I laughed so much that I don't think I'll ever be able to read anything by those two too seriously (actually, I probably wouldn't even bother with Chompsky). And what is the relation between words and thought. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. I generally enjoy Tom Wolfe, but this is an exception. The sound it makes is that of a lively mind having a very good … And there is the mystery involved in the sudden ability of two-year-olds to speak their language, recursively, a phenomenon that supports Chomsky’s language organ thesis. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. Marxism may now be discredited, but his idea of one social class dominating another will be with us forever. . “To say that animals evolved into man is like saying that Carrara marble evolved into Michelangelo's David. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech — not evolution — is responsible for humanity’s complex societies and achievements. Slaughters holy scientific cows left, right and center. “Word are artifacts, and until man had speech, he couldn’t create any other artifacts, whether it was a slingshot or an Iphone or the tango.” You could lay aside your slingshot or your  Iphone and forget about it . Ehhhh I dunno, 4 stars for the prose and maybe like 2.5 for the content; still good, but certainly not Wolfe at his best. Bit of a redundant comment, given the author is making the same point. The text, while clearly under-researched, still touches on enough important. Darwinian evolutionary theory. But besides the major structural weakness and many lesser weaknesses, what makes this book a bad one is the last few pages, in which Wolfe summons all of his formidable arrogance in a bizarre, unsupported rant in which he claims to have found the answer to life, the linguoverse and everything. (I mean, these gods are worshipped so devotedly so as to make you ill). Why Wolfe spends the first half of the book showing off his ignorance by pretending the Theory of Evolution doesn't have any scientific merit or relevance is unclear, since the second half of the book, about linguistics, is spent dismissing evolution's relevance to the field. Seems a lot of 1 star reviews don't like Wolfe's take down on Darwin. He wrote a best-seller with the title Don’t Sleep—There are Snakes,” which was Piranha for “Good Night.”  If Chomsky’s theory was not defeated it was highly qualified. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Wolfe is a Darwinian (I think), but he believes on good evidence that Darwin stole his theory from Wallace, who had written Darwin asking him to forward his paper sketching a theory of evolution to Charles Lyell. It is with a profound sense of humility that I accept the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me. Remember that scie. Depending on how much Wolfe's writing style irritates you, most of this book is a readable but disjointed and superficial narrative trying but mostly failing to connect two largely separate fields. Another key shortfall: s. Tom Wolfe wrote a book on a subject where he has no knowledge. Of course Wolfe could not  offer a theory that says simply that man, being created by the Word in the image of God, with the Word enlightening every man coming into the world, has never been without words and language. It was obnoxious. / 200 pages. Satirist Tom Wolfe is back with another contrarian broadside against sacred cows. The story begins with the failure of Darwin, who having been enormously successful in presenting a theory fostered by William Wallace, never got further than, in his 1871, suggesting that speech evolved from the human ability to imitate the song of birds. Outstanding. This applies across the board , in all areas of research endeavor, whether biology, astrophysics, or linguistics. The Kingdom of Speech:  Tom Wolfe / Little, Brown Pub. Surprisingly, for me at least, Wolfe careens between wildly engaging works, think Bonfire of the Vanities, to the near tears boredom inducing, A Man in Full. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. Superficially, this book is about linguistics but not really. Little, Brown, $26 (160p) ISBN 978-0-316-40462-4 . [1] This is a book that treats Charles Darwin as a toplofty prig and Noam Chomsky as a haughty fake—which is to say it aims to harpoon two of the biggest whales of modern secular thought. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. As an erstwhile colleague of mine put it in his review of the book in the Washington Post (. Tom Wolfe takes a crack of the beauty of this aspect with this “The Kingdom of Speech.” I do like Tom Wolfe, so reader beware I’m probably biased. Then enter Daniel Everett, born in dry and dusty Holtsville, California, destined by his upbringing to a life of insignificance, something in the way of William Wallace, who somehow got saved by his future wife Karen, wound up at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, became a brilliant linguist and then became a missionary in the back of the beyond, in the Amazon basin, with a tribe of 350-500 people called the Piranha, pronounced with one short and one long vowel. Superficially, this book is about linguistics but not really. Wolfe , of course, is a former journalist, a novelist who overrates his worth, and a clever ironist who can catch the flaws and contradictions in the statements of other creative writers. Perhaps more along the lines that those who gave the book one star are defenders of scientific protocols for verification of proof. I'm not sure that I disagree - I'll wait until I've read the book to dete, Your rebuttal would be compelling if it weren't just an appeal to authority. Wolfe suggests that we have entered a fourth Kingdom of Earth, After the ages of animals, vegetables, and  minerals we enter the Kingdom of Speech. Wallace’s paper stirred Darwin into hurriedly writing the Origin of Species. Mighty men might say the wrong words and tens of thousands of little men would die. Welcome back. A complicated and brilliant book. In this slim, provocative volume, Wolfe risks the scorn of the scientific establishment by criticizing the self-importance of these legendary figures. Outstanding. The Kingdom of Speech is best read, then, with Wolfe not just as a narrator-historian but as a character. Wolfe's logic is completely lacking and shows how not arrive at a theory through proper scientific method. The style sticks to the middle ground between journalism and the best, most entertaining fiction. “Every sentence stands alone and refers to a single event.”  “The Piranha language comes from their culture, not from any pre-existing mental template.”   This claim was devastating to Chomsky’s theory, and a war of words between Chomsky and Everett ensued. Of all the nerve. Defenders of the faith? Robert Griffin 22 January 2017. Protocol requires if new evidence emerges that credibly challenges established conclusions, scientists reexamine the issue at hand and alter theories as required to accommodate new data. ), Perhaps more along the lines that those who gave the book one star are defenders of scientific protocols for verification of proof. Groundbreaking journalist and bestselling novelist Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons, now applies his virtuosity to the source of all of humanity's achievements. But you have to go back to 1981 and From Bauhaus to Our House to find Wolfe’s last extended, book-length piece of non-fiction. Perhaps the impetus for writing it came from the awareness that science, while in the 150 years that separates us from Darwin, had invented relativity and microbiology, despite intense effort had failed to produce even a compelling theory regarding the origin of speech. Wolfe's logic is completely lacking and shows how not arrive at a theory through proper scientific method. This is a bit like his classic attacks on pretentious flim flammery, This book is, simply put, the heresy of an uneducated washed-up author. His "new journalism" style was completely unsuited to persuading me of the validity of some of his rather specious scientific arguments. Wolfe demonstrates how Speech is the silver bullet for Darwinism. 26 Video Lectures on the History of the Church by Dr. Patrick, A complicated and brilliant book. They made no artifacts other than the bow and arrow, the existence of which among them was part of the mystery. Before Tom Wolfe was a bestselling novelist, he was a groundbreaking journalist. Wolfe suggests that one might try to count to ten, just mentally, without using words. Perhaps the impetus for writing it came from the awareness that science, while in the 150 years that separates us from Darwin, had invented relativity and microbiology, despite intense effort had failed to produce even a compelling theory regarding  the origin of speech. A story beautifully told, yet one in which it clarifies the nature and function of language still does not tell us much about the origin of language and speech. In his new book The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe argues that speech and not evolution is responsible for the many achievements of humans.Wolfe, the author of The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, went on NPR the other day to talk about the book. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. Alternate title: "The Wrong Stuff. Well...! Start by marking “The Kingdom of Speech” as Want to Read: Error rating book. And here he's thumbing his nose at one of modernity's most sacred Golden Cows: the Theory of Everything. I am sure it is possible to write a great book with this technique and perhaps Tom Wolfe has already done it, but this one is unfortunately a complete mess. He makes several claims in the book that show how uneducated he is. The thesis of Everett’s book Language The Cultural Tool was: “Speech is man-made. Speech is what man pays homage to in every moment he can imagine.”, “We argue instead that the richness of ideas is accompanied by a poverty of evidence, with essentially no explanation of how and why our linguistic computations and representations evolved.”. by Little, Brown and Company. Not having read any Tom Wolfe before, I was riveted by the prose style of this book, with its ellipses, colloquial asides, and multiple exclamation marks. The Kingdom of Speech is an extraordinary display of intellectual independence. No. The Kingdom of Speech is a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. David Z. Morris's writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Word Riot, Wired, MilkFist, Aeon, Fortune, and Maximum Rock n' Roll. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. Despite the fairly copious footnotes, there was little evidence that Wolfe's understanding of either evolution or linguistics had any depth. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech — not evolution — is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. I was scrolling through thousands of my library's digital offerings when I saw this and thought, "Hmmm...I've never read any Tom Wolfe; maybe I should give him a try." 4.5. I used it as additional ammunition for a talk about natural language processing (NLP), which is a machine learning (= AI) application. After Wolfe's death I looked for books he authored that I hadn't read. [1] This is a book that treats Charles Darwin as a toplofty prig and Noam Chomsky as a haughty fake—which is to say it aims to harpoon two of the biggest whales of modern secular thought. Most troublesome of all, Wolfe acted like an annoyed child each time he had to “correct” himself with the “new politically correct” terms for indigenous people, making it partway through the word “native” EVERY TIME. No where in any credible theory of scientific endeavor does it say that the interpretation of the facts is final. I hope to write more about this later. This is not because he disagrees with the standard theory, but because his arguments consist of claiming there is no proof. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for humanity's com 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 the most poetic work of Wolfe’s long career. It is an artifact and it explains man’s power over all other creatures in a way Evolution all by itself can’t begin to.”   Speech is the dividing line between man and other animals; only speech gives the human beast the ability to make plans . The sharply-dressed wordsmith returns with The Kingdom of Speech, his first non-fiction work since his 2000 collection of essays, Hooking Up. Wolfe is a Darwinian (I think), but he believes on good evidence that Darwin stole his theory from Wallace, who had written Darwin asking him to forward his paper sketching a theory of evolution to Charles Lyell. This book is poorly argued, makes no sense, and is generally extremely annoying. Tom Wolfe one day stumbled across a 2014 essay by eight "heavyweight Evolutionists," the famed-linguist Noam Chomsky being notability among them, and was startled by their conclusion that, after 150 years of scientific research and academic speculation, what we know about speech and language remains "as mysterious as ever." Five stars for making fun of Darwin (for the despicable way he double-crossed Alfred Wallace) and Chompsky (for being an armchair intellectual nincompoop). He wrote a best-seller with the title Don’t Sleep—There are Snakes,” which was Piranha for “Good Night.”  If Chomsky’s theory was not defeated it was highly qualified. A great entertaining read. This observation opened the way for the conviction that the Piranha language was a cultural artifact. Groundbreaking journalist and bestselling novelist Tom Wolfe, author of The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons, now applies his virtuosity to the source of all of humanity's achievements. ‎ The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. Yes! The Kingdom of Speech - Ebook written by Tom Wolfe. Enjoyed this enormously, especially the intelligent polemics. For a reporter-then-novelist to write about evolution is like me writing a treatise on brain surgery. Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. I'm not sure that I disagree - I'll wait until I've read the book to determine that - but for now this seems - quite ironically - no better than the drivel you accuse Wolfe's book of being. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. Enjoyed this enormously, especially the intelligent polemics. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Tom Wolfe tries to take down Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky with baffling (and terrible) results. The Kingdom of Speech: Tom Wolfe / Little, Brown Pub. Wolfe has a good deal of fun with Chomsky, whom he presents as a somewhat vain and pompous theorist. This one you figure, try it, maybe? Five stars for making fun of Darwin (for the despicable way he double-crossed Alfred Wallace) and Chompsky (for being an armchair intellectual nincompoop). This is a short book, readable in a few hours, and is worth it for several reasons. The Kingdom of Speech is… This observation opened the way for the conviction that the Piranha language was a cultural artifact. This book is different in that Wolfe has ventured into scientific theory - or actually, holy writ, i.e. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Kingdom of Speech. If you have less than half a brain, please do not read this as it is pure misinformation and you are doing yourself a disservice. Now the maestro storyteller turns his attention to the mystery behind the creation of hiw own most important tool. 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. Yes! . The story begins with the failure of Darwin, who having been enormously successful in presenting a theory fostered by William Wallace, never got further than, in his 1871 Descent of Man, suggesting that speech evolved from the human ability to imitate the song of birds. But Everitt was surely right that speech is a cultural inheritance, still an irrefutable witness to who you are and where you are from and how you will manage the world. This vapid piece of preening ignorance will stand as a pointless landmark (or better yet, sink like a witless stone) to sturm-und-drang self-regard. He makes several claims in the book that show how uneducated he is. Perhaps the impetus for writing it came from the awareness that science, while in the 150 years that separates us from Darwin, had invented relativity and microbiology, despite intense effort had failed to produce even a compelling theory regarding the origin of speech. In The Kingdom of Speech, Wolfe makes the captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. The Kingdom of Speech Tom Wolfe. 2. What is the relation between speech and writing, which is the attempt to make speech live and be shared through time. Chomsky would be the first to insist that his frameworks need to under go the same rigorous challenges as theories in other disciplines do. This is the type of rhetoric that damages the progression of science. If you ever wanted to read a book about a scientific field or two (in Wolfe's trademark flamboyant prose) that was utterly innocent of any understanding of science, here's your chance. . ‎ The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong. The Kingdom of Speech is a paradigm-shifting argument that speech - not evolution - is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech -- not evolution -- is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements. 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