Structure and the Whole: East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics

Patrick Sériot

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2014

Structure and the Whole

East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics

Patrick Sériot

Volume 12 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515296

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This book identifies the Romantic notion of the whole as the fundamental epistemological source of the notion of structure in the thinking of the Prague Linguistic Circle, primarily its Russian representatives, and studies what amounted to the slow, painful process of disengagement from the organicist metaphor in an intellectual world very different from Saussure's.

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Patrick Sériot, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Reviews

"This book is one of substantial erudition and interest. Specialists in the history of ideas, and that of structuralism in particular, will be in the best position to evaluate the details and cogency of its arguments. Others, i.e., those of us with an interest in the Prague School arising in their education and research in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and specifically in linguistics, will find it fascinating intellectual history, taking them, potentially, to a far deeper understanding of the views, and their origin, of Jakobson and Trubetzkoy, views which originated not only in an interest in language per se, but also as it pertained to culture and nationhood. I know of no other book that does this."
Mark J. Elson in: Slavic & East European Journal 61.2 (2017) Nr. 18, S. 384

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	viii
Foreword At the creative diversity of borders, for understanding the structure and the whole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
First part: Background
Chapter 1. The question of boundaries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2. The Eurasianist movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Second part: Closure
Chapter 3. The space factor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 4. Continuous and discontinuous Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 5. Evolutionism or diffusionism? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Third part: Nature
Chapter 6. Affinities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 7. The biological model Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 8. The theory of correspondences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Fourth part: Science
Chapter 9. Personology and synthesizing the sciences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Chapter 10. Holism: What is a whole? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Semioticians; Linguists; Specialists in Intellectual History; Historians of Russian and Soviet Culture
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 294
Keywords: Structuralism; Eastern Europe; Eurasianism; Darwinism

eBook

Published: April 1, 2014
ISBN: 9781614515296

Hardcover

Published: March 31, 2014
ISBN: 9781614517306