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Index
Cover
Half title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Saussure, “Saussurism,” and “Saussurology”
Part 1. Voluble Silence: Saussure and His Legacy
1. The Person
The Roots
Years of Learning
Paris and Geneva
2. The Writings
The Published and the Perishable
Fragmentariness
Reading the Course in General Linguistics
Part 2. Postulates About Language and Their Demise
3. Antinomies of the Sign
Linguistics in Search of Its Subject
The Double Nature of the Sign
Arbitrariness and Negativity: Language as Pure Form
Immutability and Mutability of Signs: An Indissoluble Antinomy
Freedom and Aporia
4. Fragmentation and Progressivity: Saussure’s Semiotics in the Mirror of Early Romantic Epistemology
In Search of Saussure’s Intellectual Roots
A Missing Link? From “Progressive Education” to “General Linguistics”
The Speaker of la langue and the Early Romantic Subject: Saussure and Novalis
5. Diachrony and History
Toward Immutability: Constructing the Past
Toward Mutability: Duration
A World in Transition: Saussure and Friedrich Schlegel
A Tentative Compromise: Linguistics as a “Natural” and a “Historical” Science
Part 3. Language in Discourse
6. The Anagram
7. Linguistics of Speech: An Unrealizable Promise?
From Language to Speech: Bridging the Metaphysical Gap
“Linguistics of Speech” and “Romantic Poetry”
The Mystery
Conclusion: Freedom and Mystery—the Peripathetic Nature of Language
Made in Leipzig
From “Science” to Philosophy
“To Have a System and to Have None Is Equally Deadening for the Spirit”
Anxiety and Stoicism
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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