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...
| Publicado en: | Germanic Review Vol. 96; no. 1; pp. 91 - 94 |
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| Sumario: | 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 I of i this or that proper name, but ultimately into the I ghost i of Wagner - which, in turn, will be exorcized by Saussure and Jakobson - that the logical coherence of structuralism will be maintained. Ultimately, moreover, the continuity and coherence of Pourciau's narrative depends on the concept of I telos i and teleology, which serves as a kind of guiding thread. |
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