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Structure and the Whole East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics

:	Patrick Sériot
:	Structure and the Whole East, West and Non-Darwinian Biology in the Origins of Structural Linguistics
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9781614518273
:	Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 124.30
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:	Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
:	English

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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.

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Patrick Sériot, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.

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