Sarah M. Pourciau. The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science.: New York: Fordham University Press, 2017, 384pp. ISBN 978-0-823-27563-2.

For Pourciau, it is first with structuralism so understood that the relation of "finished forms to formal principle", indeed of "structure to soul", achieves "a rigorously nonparadoxical, system-internal account" (5). And hence it is by transmogrifying the generic metaphysical spirit into the spirit...

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Publicado en:Germanic Review Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 91 - 94
Autor principal: Adler, Anthony Curtis
Formato: Book Review
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Mar2021
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