Structure and the whole: east, west and non-darwinian biology in the origins of structural linguistics
Auteur :
Sériot, Patrick
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9781614517306
Date de publication :
31 mars 2014
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
584 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 process of disengagement from the organicist metaphor in an intellectual world very different from Saussure's.