Structure and the Whole : : East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics / / Patrick Sériot.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Sériot, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; Introduction --; First part: Background --; Chapter 1. The question of boundaries --; Chapter 2. The Eurasianist movement --; Second part: Closure --; Chapter 3. The space factor --; Chapter 4. Continuous and discontinuous --; Chapter 5. Evolutionism or diffusionism? --; Third part: Nature --; Chapter 6. Affinities --; Chapter 7. The biological model --; Chapter 8. The theory of correspondences --; Fourth part: Science --; Chapter 9. Personology and synthesizing the sciences --; Chapter 10. Holism: What is a whole? --; Conclusion --; Appendix --; Bibliography --; Index of names --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614515296; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110369526; 9783110370270
• ISSN: 1867-0873
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614515296
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Patrick Sériot.

This book identifies the Romantic notion of the whole as the fundamental epistemological source of the notion of structure in the thinking of the Prague Linguistic Circle, primarily its Russian representatives, and studies what amounted to the slow, painful process of disengagement from the organicist metaphor in an intellectual world very different from Saussure's.