Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents

by Boris Gasparov

The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic interrelationships, and developed a theory of the anagram so profound it gave rise to poststructural literary criticism.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231157800
• ISBN13: 9780231157803
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher