The Writing of Spirit : : Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science / / Sarah M. Pourciau.
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 unexpl...
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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. “The Eternal Etymology”: From Sprachgeist to Ferdinand de Saussure
- 1. Language Ensouled
- 2. Saussure’s Dream
- 3. Verse Origins
- Part II. Tending toward Zero: From Runes to Phonemes
- 4. Wagner’s Poetry of the Spheres
- 5. Pythagoras in the Laboratory
- 6. Jakobson’s Zeros
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index