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What if Derrida was wrong about Saussure? / Russell Daylight.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748641970
  • 9780748644902
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  • 410 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Textual Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Classical Semiology -- 2. The Originality of Saussure -- 3. The Concept of the Sign -- 4. Writing, Speech, and the Voice -- 5. The Sign as Representation -- 6. Linguistic Identity -- 7. The Sign and Time -- 8. The Horizon of Language -- Conclusion -- List of Works by Derrida and Saussure -- References -- Index
Summary: Between 1907 and 1911, Ferdinand de Saussure gave three series of lectures on the topic of general linguistics. After his death, these lecture notes were gathered together by his students and published as the Course in General Linguistics. And in the past one hundred years, there has been no more influential and divisive reading of Saussure than that of Jacques Derrida.This book is an examination of Derrida's philosophical reconstruction of Saussurean linguistics, of the paradigm shift from structuralism to post-structuralism, and of the consequences that continue to resonate in every field of the humanities today.Despite the importance of Derrida's critique of Saussure for cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics and literary theory, no comprehensive analysis has before been written. The magnitude of the task undertaken here makes this book an invaluable resource for those wishing to interrogate the encounter beyond appearances or received wisdom.In this process of a close reading, the following themes become sites of debate between Derrida and Saussure:the originality of Saussure within the history of Western metaphysicsthe relationship between speech and writingthe relationship between difference and differencethe intervention of time in structuralismlinguistic relativism and the role of the language user.This long-overdue commentary also poses new questions to structuralism and post-structuralism, and opens up exciting new terrain in linguistic and political thought.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Textual Notes -- Introduction -- 1. Classical Semiology -- 2. The Originality of Saussure -- 3. The Concept of the Sign -- 4. Writing, Speech, and the Voice -- 5. The Sign as Representation -- 6. Linguistic Identity -- 7. The Sign and Time -- 8. The Horizon of Language -- Conclusion -- List of Works by Derrida and Saussure -- References -- Index

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Between 1907 and 1911, Ferdinand de Saussure gave three series of lectures on the topic of general linguistics. After his death, these lecture notes were gathered together by his students and published as the Course in General Linguistics. And in the past one hundred years, there has been no more influential and divisive reading of Saussure than that of Jacques Derrida.This book is an examination of Derrida's philosophical reconstruction of Saussurean linguistics, of the paradigm shift from structuralism to post-structuralism, and of the consequences that continue to resonate in every field of the humanities today.Despite the importance of Derrida's critique of Saussure for cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics and literary theory, no comprehensive analysis has before been written. The magnitude of the task undertaken here makes this book an invaluable resource for those wishing to interrogate the encounter beyond appearances or received wisdom.In this process of a close reading, the following themes become sites of debate between Derrida and Saussure:the originality of Saussure within the history of Western metaphysicsthe relationship between speech and writingthe relationship between difference and differencethe intervention of time in structuralismlinguistic relativism and the role of the language user.This long-overdue commentary also poses new questions to structuralism and post-structuralism, and opens up exciting new terrain in linguistic and political thought.

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