Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. The Emergence of Linguistic Conscience 7
5. PART I. Volapük
6. Chapter 2. A Language in Search of a Problem 21
7. Chapter 3. Who Were the Volapükists? 25
8. Chapter 4. “Pandemonium in the Tower of Babel”: The Language Critics 34
9. Chapter 5. “Strangled in the House of Its Friends”: Volapük’s Demise 44
10. Chapter 6. “My Troubled Child”: The Artist and the Kulturkampf 51
11. PART II. Esperanto
12. Chapter 7. “The Purpose of My Whole Life”: Zamenhof and Esperanto 59
13. Chapter 8. “Let Us Work and Have Hope!”: Language and Democracy 65
14. Chapter 9. “The Menacing Thunderstorm of Reforms”: First Esperantists and First Crises 71
15. Chapter 10. The French Resurgence 77
16. Chapter 11. “Bringing Together the Whole Human Race”: Esperanto’s Inner Idea 84
17. PART III . The Esperanto Cluster: Same Language, Different Communities
18. Chapter 12. The Demographics of Esperantujo 95
19. Chapter 13. Pacifists, Taylorists, and Feminists 103
20. Chapter 14. “Hidden-World Seekers”: Esperanto in New Wave and Old Religions 112
21. Chapter 15. Freethinkers, Socialists, and Herderians 120
22. PART IV. Ido and its Satellites
23. Chapter 16. “One Ideal International Language”: Ido 131
24. Chapter 17. “Linguistic Cannibalism” 144
25. Conclusion 153
26. Notes 169
27. Bibliography 199
28. Index 219
29. Acknowledgments 227