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The Writing of Spirit : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science / / Sarah M. Pourciau



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Autore: Pourciau Sarah M. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Writing of Spirit : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science / / Sarah M. Pourciau Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 pages)
Disciplina: 901
Soggetto topico: Language and languages
Linguistics
Soggetto non controllato: German Romanticism
Jakobson
Saussure
Sprachgeist
Structuralism
historical linguistics
philology
philosophy of history
system
writing
Note generali: Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-362) and index
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The Writing of Spirit  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-7566-3
0-8232-7717-8
0-8232-7565-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792879103321
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Serie: Modern language initiative.