LEADER 03584nam 22006975 450 001 9910480535503321 005 20210720015306.0 010 $a0-8232-7566-3 010 $a0-8232-7717-8 010 $a0-8232-7565-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823275656 035 $a(CKB)3710000001100295 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4825598 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001809962 035 $a(OCoLC)976434187 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59070 035 $a(DE-B1597)554943 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823275656 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001100295 100 $a20200723h20172017 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Writing of Spirit $eSoul, System, and the Roots of Language Science /$fSarah M. Pourciau 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (384 pages) 225 1 $aThe modern language initiative 300 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. 311 0 $a0-8232-7563-9 311 0 $a0-8232-7562-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [339]-362) and index 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Language Ensouled --$t2. Saussure?s Dream --$t3. Verse Origins --$t4. Wagner?s Poetry of the Spheres --$t5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory --$t6. Jakobson?s Zeros --$tAfterword --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aContemporary thought has been profoundly shaped by the early-twentieth-century turn toward synchronic models of explanation, which analyze phenomena as they appear at a single moment, rather than diachronically as they develop through time. But the relationship between time and system remains unexplained by the standard account of this shift. Through a new history of systematic thinking across the humanities and sciences, The Writing of Spirit argues that nineteenth-century historicism wasn?t simply replaced by a more modern synchronic perspective. The structuralist revolution consisted rather in a turn toward time?s absolutely minimal conditions, and thus also toward a new theory of diachrony. Pourciau arrives at this surprising and powerful conclusion through an analysis of language-scientific theories over the course of two centuries, associated with thinkers from Jacob Grimm and Richard Wagner to the Russian Futurists, in domains as disparate as historical linguistics, phonology, acoustics, opera theory, philosophy, poetics, and psychology. The result is a novel contribution to a pressing contemporary question?namely, what role history should play in the interpretation of the present. 410 0$aModern language initiative. 606 $aLanguage and languages 606 $aLinguistics 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aGerman Romanticism. 610 $aJakobson. 610 $aSaussure. 610 $aSprachgeist. 610 $aStructuralism. 610 $ahistorical linguistics. 610 $aphilology. 610 $aphilosophy of history. 610 $asystem. 610 $awriting. 615 0$aLanguage and languages. 615 0$aLinguistics. 676 $a901 700 $aPourciau$b Sarah M.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01049110 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480535503321 996 $aThe Writing of Spirit$92477824 997 $aUNINA