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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.