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Saussure's Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology: Undoing the Doctrine of the Course in General Linguistics

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This book draws on recent developments in research on Ferdinand de Saussure's general linguistics to challenge the structuralist doctrine associated with the posthumous Course in General Linguistics (1916) and to develop a new philosophical interpretation of Saussure's conception of language based solely on authentic source materials. This project follows two new editorial paradigms: 1. a critical re-examination of the 1916 Course in light of the relevant sources and 2. a reclamation of the historically authentic materials from Saussure's Nachlass, some of them recently discovered. In Stawarska's book, this editorial paradigm shift serves to expose the difficulties surrounding the official Saussurean doctrine with its sets of oppositional pairings: the signifier and the signified; la langue and la parole; synchrony and diachrony. The book therefore puts pressure not only on the validity of the posthumous editorial redaction of Saussure's course in general linguistics in the Course, but also on its structuralist and post-structuralist legacy within the works of Levi-Strauss, Lacan, and Derrida. Its constructive contribution consists in reclaiming the writings from Saussure's Nachlass in the service of a linguistic phenomenology, which intersects individual expression in the present with historically sedimented social conventions. Stawarska develops such a conception of language by engaging Saussure's own reflections with relevant writings by Hegel, Husserl, Roman Jakobson, and Merleau-Ponty. Finally, she enriches her philosophical critique with a detailed historical account of the material and institutional processes that led to the ghostwriting and legitimizing the Course as official Saussurean doctrine.

About the Author :
Beata Stawarska is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is an author of Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology (Ohio UP, 2009) and a number of essays in contemporary European Philosophy. Recent recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship for Advanced Researchers, Stawarska is an expert in phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism.

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"Stawarska writes well; her book is often both pleasant to read and thought-provoking... erudite and inspiring" --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online "With this clearly argued and engaging study of Saussure, Beata Stawarska has done a great service to the broad, ongoing effort to radically reassess the established historiography not only of structuralism or phenomenology, but of pre-war European intellectual history as a whole." --Phenomenological Reviews "With its combination of philological rigour, historical accuracy and philosophical brightness, Stawarska's book is bound to become a text of great import." --Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio "Stawarska's analysis provides overwhelming evidence that the misrepresentation of Saussure is bound up with the reduction of structuralism to a post-WWII French phenomenon cut off, on the one hand, from its prior developments and, on the other, from its contemporaneous deployments, especially in what was then communist Eastern Europe" -- Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy "Stawarska has produced a landmark text that makes critical contributions to Saussure's scholarship, continental views of language, the history of ideas, and serves as a key textual ally for feminist and decolonial perspectives on language and embodiment. What she accomplishes is nothing short of a rug-pulling inversion of Saussure's thought that will also force metaphilosophical discussions in the classroom and conference halls alike." -- Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences "Stawarska's lucid and energetic analysis questions the identification of Saussure with prevalent views on structuralism and makes the case for reexamining Saussure's legacy from a phenomenological perspective in order to reveal philosophical complexity of his work. In doing so, her study succeeds in challenging received ideas with broader implications, emphasizing the need to rethink the history of ideas in Europe and to retrace the intellectual connections severed after the Second World War." -- Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Philosophy


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  • ISBN-13: 9780190213046
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0190213043
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2015
  • Binding: Digital online
  • Sub Title: Undoing the Doctrine of the Course in General Linguistics


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