TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sériot,Patrick
TI  - Structure and the Whole: East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics 
T2  - Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ,
SN  - 9781614517306
AV  - P81.E92 
U1  - 410.9470904 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Eurasian school
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Structural linguistics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Darwinism
KW  - Eastern Europe
KW  - Eurasianism
KW  - Structuralism
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515296
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