Beyond pure reason : Ferdinand de Saussure's philosophy of language and its early romantic antecedents /

The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857?1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinet...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gasparov, B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Series:University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
Subjects:
Saussure, Ferdinand de, > 1857-1913.
Linguistics > Philosophy.
Linguistics > History.
Structural linguistics > History.
Semiotics.
Linguistique > Philosophie.
Linguistique > Histoire.
Linguistique structurale > Histoire.
Linguistics.
Structural linguistics.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Saussure, "Saussurism," and "Saussurology"
  • 1. The person
  • 2. The writings
  • 3. Antinomies of the sign
  • 4. Fragmentation and progressivity : Saussure's semiotics in the mirror of early romantic epistemology
  • 5. Diachrony and history
  • 6. The anagram
  • 7. Linguistics of speech : an unrealizable promise?
  • Conclusion : freedom and mystery : the peripathetic nature of language.

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