Saussure and Sechehaye myth and genius : a study in the history of linguistics and the foundations of language / by Pieter A.M. Seuren.

Author/creator Seuren, Pieter A. M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Descriptionxi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Who was Ferdinand de Saussure? -- The cours: a critical look -- Charles-Albert Sechehaye -- Sechehaye and the great subject-predicate debate -- Structuralism, rationalism and romanticism in psychology and linguistics.
Abstract "In this book, Pieter Seuren argues that Ferdinand de Saussure has been grossly overestimated over the past century, while his junior colleague Albert Sechehaye has been undeservedly ignored. Saussure was anything but the great innovator he is generally believed to be. Sechehaye was a genius providing many trenchant analyses and anticipating many modern insights. The lives and works of both men are discussed in detail and they are placed in the cultural, intellectual and social environment of their day. Much attention is paid to the theoretical issues involved, in particular to the notion and history of structuralism, to the great subject-predicate debate that dominated linguistic theory at the time, and to questions of methodology in the theory of language"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"This book is a further development of my article 'Saussure and his intellectual environment', published in the journal History of European Ideas (Seuren 2016) as part of a special issue in honour of Hans Aarsleff, who turned 90 in 2015."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2018028817
ISBN9789004378148 (hardback : alk. paper)
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