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Autore |
Pourciau Sarah M. |
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Titolo |
The Writing of Spirit : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science / / Sarah M. Pourciau |
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New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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ISBN |
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0-8232-7566-3 |
0-8232-7717-8 |
0-8232-7565-5 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 pages) |
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Collana |
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The modern language initiative |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Language and languages |
Linguistics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-362) and index |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Language Ensouled -- 2. Saussure’s Dream -- 3. Verse Origins -- 4. Wagner’s Poetry of the Spheres -- 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory -- 6. Jakobson’s Zeros -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Contemporary thought has been profoundly shaped by the early-twentieth-century turn toward synchronic models of explanation, which analyze phenomena as they appear at a single moment, rather than diachronically as they develop through time. But the relationship between time and system remains unexplained by the standard account of this shift. Through a new history of systematic thinking across the humanities and sciences, The Writing of Spirit argues that nineteenth-century historicism wasn’t simply replaced by a more modern synchronic perspective. The structuralist revolution consisted rather in a turn toward time’s absolutely minimal conditions, and thus also toward a new theory of diachrony. Pourciau arrives at this surprising and powerful conclusion through an analysis of language-scientific theories over the course of two centuries, associated with thinkers from Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner to the Russian Futurists, in domains |
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as disparate as historical linguistics, phonology, acoustics, opera theory, philosophy, poetics, and psychology. The result is a novel contribution to a pressing contemporary question—namely, what role history should play in the interpretation of the present. |
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