Structure and the Whole : East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics.
This bookidentifies 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 organicis...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
2014
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| Series: | Semiotics, Communication and Cognition SCC.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This bookidentifies 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781614518273 1614518270 1306570069 9781306570060 9781614517306 1614517304 9781614515296 1614515298 |
| Language: | "Originally published as Structure et totalité. Les origines intellectuelles du structuralisme en Europe centrale et orientale © Presses universitaires de France, 1999 2nd edition : © Les Éditions Lambert-Lucas, 2012." |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
