Sériot Structure and the Whole

East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-61451-529-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten

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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.

Zielgruppe

Semioticians; Linguists; Specialists in Intellectual History; Historians of Russian and Soviet Culture

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sériot, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgments;8
2;Foreword (Kalevi Kull);9
3;Introduction;15
3.1;1 Novelty and decentering;15
3.2;2 Three scientific personalities;17
3.3;3 “Suggestions from the East”;19
3.4;4 On traditions;21
3.5;5 Complementarity;23
4;First part: Background;25
4.1;Chapter 1. The question of boundaries;27
4.1.1;1 Boundaries in time: Are there paradigm shifts in linguistics?;27
4.1.2;2 Boundaries in space: Russian science and European science, same or other?;29
4.1.3;3 The boundaries between science and ideology: What is at stake comparative epistemology;35
4.1.4;4 The double helix;36
4.2;Chapter 2. The Eurasianist movement;38
4.2.1;1 A brief institutional and political history of the movement;40
4.2.2;2 The main features of Eurasianist doctrine;43
4.2.3;3 Missing borders, imagined borders;60
5;Second part: Closure;75
5.1;Chapter 3. The space factor;77
5.1.1;1 A brief overview of the question;78
5.1.2;2 Jakobson’s phonological language union;82
5.1.3;3 The “oil stain” metaphor;92
5.2;Chapter 4. Continuous and discontinuous;105
5.2.1;1 Closure;106
5.2.2;2 Impossible closure;113
5.2.3;3 The overlap theory: synthesis or a backward move?;124
5.2.4;4 Where does a thing begin and end?;127
5.3;Chapter 5. Evolutionism or diffusionism?;129
5.3.1;1 Marrism;130
5.3.2;2 Bringing together apparently opposed theories;132
5.3.3;3 Philosophical categories;134
5.3.4;4 The enigma of resemblances;149
6;Third part: Nature;153
6.1;Chapter 6. Affinities;155
6.1.1;1 Two types of resemblance;156
6.1.2;2 A disconcerting ambiguity: acquired or innate resemblances in linguistics;164
6.2;Chapter 7. The biological model;173
6.2.1;1 Teleology or causality?;174
6.2.2;2 Nomogenesis or chance occurrence?;176
6.2.3;3 Convergences or divergences?;181
6.2.4;4 The organic metaphor;186
6.3;Chapter 8 .The theory of correspondences;189
6.3.1;1 “Development locale”: a non-deterministic object of research?;189
6.3.2;2 The “linkage” method;196
6.3.3;3 Order and harmony;204
7;Fourth part: Science;223
7.1;Chapter 9. Personology and synthesizing the sciences;225
7.1.1;1 Synthetic science;225
7.1.2;2 “Personology” (personologija);237
7.2;Chapter 10. Holism: What is a whole?;244
7.2.1;1 Through the looking glass;244
7.2.2;2 Positivism and holism;245
7.2.3;3 The question of naturalism;248
7.2.4;4 Given object versus constructed object;260
7.2.5;5 Structure or whole?;262
8;Conclusion;267
9;Appendix;273
10;Bibliography;275
11;Index of names;295
12;Index of subjects
;304

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Sériot, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.