03568nam 22006975 450 991082354390332120230809223152.00-8232-7566-30-8232-7717-80-8232-7565-510.1515/9780823275656(CKB)3710000001100295(MiAaPQ)EBC4825598(StDuBDS)EDZ0001809962(OCoLC)976434187(MdBmJHUP)muse59070(DE-B1597)554943(DE-B1597)9780823275656(EXLCZ)99371000000110029520200723h20172017 fg 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Writing of Spirit Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science /Sarah M. PourciauFirst edition.New York, NY :Fordham University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (384 pages)The modern language initiativeIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.0-8232-7563-9 0-8232-7562-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-362) and indexFront 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 --IndexContemporary 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 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.Modern language initiative.Language and languagesLinguisticsGerman Romanticism.Jakobson.Saussure.Sprachgeist.Structuralism.historical linguistics.philology.philosophy of history.system.writing.Language and languages.Linguistics.901410.9Pourciau Sarah M.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1719329DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910823543903321The Writing of Spirit4117071UNINA