The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and the Roots of by Sarah Pourciau

By Sarah Pourciau

modern suggestion has been profoundly formed by means of the flip towards synchronic types of clarification, which research phenomena as they seem at a unmarried second, instead of diachronically as they strengthen via time. Nowhere, even though, has this alteration spread out extra influentially than within the area of language technology, the place the terminology of synchrony and diachrony first explicitly emerges.

The Writing of Spirit units out to illustrate, via a brand new historical past of language technology, that we don't understand what we expect we all know approximately this pivotal juncture in our highbrow prior. Twentieth-century linguistic structuralism, it argues, doesn't substitute the historicist technique of the 19th century with a extra sleek, extra systematic viewpoint, as has lengthy been assumed, as the dating among background and process is structuralism’s element. the genuine revolution is composed no longer in a draw back from language time, yet in a flip towards time’s completely minimum stipulations, and therefore additionally towards a idea of diachrony, boiled down and distilled.

Pourciau arrives at this impressive and strong end via an research of language medical theories over the process centuries, linked to thinkers from Jacob Grimm to the Russian Futurists and from Richard Wagner to Roman Jakobson, in domain names as disparate as old linguistics, phonology, acoustics, opera idea, philosophy, poetics, and psychology. the result's a singular contribution to at least one of the main urgent questions of our highbrow second, particularly, the query of what position the research of background may still play within the interpretation of the present.

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