Beyond Pure Reason Ferdinand De Saussure`s Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents

includes index and biblioraphy

Voluble Silence: Saussure and His Legacy The Person 15 The Roots 16 Years of Learning 20 Paris and Geneva 28 The Writings 37 The Published and the Perishable 37 Fragmentariness 46 Reading the Course in General Linguistics 52 Postulates About Language and Their Demise Antinomies of the Sign 63 Linguistics in Search of Its Subject 63 The Double Nature of the Sign 66 Arbitrariness and Negativity: Language as Pure Form 70 Immutability and Mutability of Signs: An Indissoluble Antinomy 80 Freedom and Aporia 84 Fragmentation and Progressivity: Saussures Semiotics in the Mirror of Early Romantic Epistemology 87 In Search of Saussures Intellectual Roots 87 A Missing Link? From "Progressive Education" to "General Linguistics" 92 The Speaker of la langue and the Early Romantic Subject: Saussure and Novalis Diachrony and History 111 Toward Immutability: Constructing the Past 111 Toward Mutability: Duration 120 A World in Transition: Saussure and Friedrich Schlegel 128 A Tentative Compromise: Linguistics as a "Natural" and a "Historical" Science Language in Discourse The Anagram 139 Linguistics of Speech: An Unrealizable Promise? 150 From Language to Speech: Bridging the Metaphysical Gap 150 " Linguistics of Speech" and "Romantic Poetry" 156 The Mystery 161 Conclusion: Freedom and Mystery¿the Peripathetic Nature of Language 170 Made in Leipzig 170 From "Science" to Philosophy 174 "To Have a System and to Have None Is Equally Deadening for the Spirit" 177 Anxiety and Stoicism 179