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The writing of spirit : soul, system, and the roots of language science /

Contemporary thought has been profoundly shaped by the early-twentieth-century turn toward synchronic models of explanation, which analyze phenomena as they appear at a single moment, rather than diachronically as they develop through time. But the relationship between time and system remains unexpl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pourciau, Sarah M., 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • part 1. "The eternal etymology" : from Sprachgeist to Ferdinand de Saussure
  • 1. Language ensouled
  • 2. Saussure's dream
  • 3. Verse origins
  • part 2. Tending toward zero : from runes to phonemes
  • 4. Wagner's poetry of the spheres
  • 5. Pythagoras in the laboratory
  • 6. Jakobson's zeros
  • Afterword.