Saussure
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2012
- ISBN 9780199695652
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages794 pages
- Size 251x181x50 mm
- Weight 1536 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In the first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, John E. Joseph restores the full character and history of a man who is considered the founder of modern linguistics and whose ideas have influenced literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and virtually every other branch of humanities and the social sciences.
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"In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system." (From the posthumous Course in General Linguistics, 1916.)
No one becomes as famous as Saussure without both admirers and detractors reducing them to a paragraph's worth of ideas that can be readily quoted, debated, memorized, and examined. One can argue the ideas expressed above - that language is composed of a system of acoustic oppositions (the signifier) matched by social convention to a system of conceptual oppositions (the signified) - have in some sense become "Saussure", while the human being, in all his complexity, has disappeared. In the first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, John Joseph restores the full character and history of a man who is considered the founder of modern linguistics and whose ideas have influenced literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and virtually every other branch of humanities and the social sciences.
Through a far-reaching account of Saussure's life and the time in which he lived, we learn about the history of Geneva, of Genevese educational institutions, of linguistics, about Saussure's ancestry, about his childhood, his education, the fortunes of his relatives, and his personal life in Paris. John Joseph intersperses all these discussions with accounts of Saussure's research and the courses he taught highlighting the ways in which knowing about his friendships and family history can help us understand not only his thoughts and ideas but also his utter failure to publish any major work after the age of twenty-one.
I warmly recommend Saussure by John E. Joseph, a lucid account of this great linguist's life and revolutionary linguistic system, pieced together from his students' notes and unpublished papers regularly being discovered in Geneva.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The World into Which he was Born
Rising to Prominence
His Grandparents' and Parents' Generations
The Heritage of Linguistics and Semiology
Part II: Early Years to the Mémoire
1857-73
1873-6
1876-8
The Mémoire on the Original Vowel System of the Indo-European Languages
Part III: Doctorate and Paris Years
1879-81
1881-4
1884-8
1888-91
Part IV: Return to Geneva
1891-4
1894-9
1899-1903
1903-6
1907-8
Part V: Final Flourish
1908-9
1909-11 537
The End: 1911-13
Opus Posthumus
Bibliography
Index
