Beyond pure reason : Ferdinand de Saussure's philosophy of language and its early romantic antecedents /
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| Author / Creator: | Gasparov, B. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c2013. |
| Description: | x, 227 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | University seminars, Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9963921 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Saussure, "Saussurism," and "Saussurology"
- Part 1. Voluble Silence: Saussure and His Legacy
- 1. The Person
- The Roots
- Years of Learning
- Paris and Geneva
- 2. The Writings
- The Published and the Perishable
- Fragmentariness
- Reading the Course in General Linguistics
- Part 2. Postulates About Language and Their Demise
- 3. Antinomies of the Sign
- Linguistics in Search of Its Subject
- The Double Nature of the Sign
- Arbitrariness and Negativity: Language as Pure Form
- Immutability and Mutability of Signs: An Indissoluble Antinomy
- Freedom and Aporia
- 4. Fragmentation and Progressivity: Saussure's Semiotics in the Mirror of Early Romantic Epistemology
- In Search of Saussure's Intellectual Roots
- A Missing Link? From "Progressive Education" to "General Linguistics"
- The Speaker of la langue and the Early Romantic Subject: Saussure and Novalis
- 5. Diachrony and History
- Toward Immutability: Constructing the Past
- Toward Mutability: Duration
- A World in Transition: Saussure and Friedrich Schlegel
- A Tentative Compromise: Linguistics as a "Natural" and a "Historical" Science
- Part 3. Language in Discourse
- 6. The Anagram
- 7. Linguistics of Speech: An Unrealizable Promise?
- From Language to Speech: Bridging the Metaphysical Gap
- "Linguistics of Speech" and "Romantic Poetry"
- The Mystery
- Conclusion: Freedom and Mystery-the Peripathetic Nature of Language
- Made in Leipzig
- From "Science" to Philosophy
- "To Have a System and to Have None Is Equally Deadening for the Spirit"
- Anxiety and Stoicism
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
