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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Guy Deutscher

Linguist and writer on how language shapes thought, color, and the habits of attention cultures train into perception.

Why this matters

Deutscher makes interpretation concrete—how categories in language become categories in judgment.

Works

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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's

Deutscher, Guy. *The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention*. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005.

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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other

Deutscher, Guy. *Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages*. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010.

Related books

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Living in Sediment

How Structures Outlive Their Reasons

We live inside inherited systems built for constraints that no longer exist. When structures survive after their reasons disappear, meaning drifts—and the danger is forgetting the sediment is sediment.