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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Saussure, Ferdinand de 1857-1913. Swiss linguist. The founder of structural linguistics, he declared that there is only an arbitrary relationship between a linguistic sign and that which it signifies. The posthumously published collection of his lectures, Course in General Linguistics (1916), is a seminal work of modern linguistics.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Swiss linguist and expert in historical linguistics whose lectures laid the foundations for synchronic linguistics (1857-1913)
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“The structuralism born in Saussure and reaching its methodological acme, say, in the writings and teachings of Lévi-Strauss was thought — in its freezing, if only momentarily, of cultural history — to be relatively indifferent to what counted as history, if by history, one understood change, contingency, temporal heterogeneity or difference that had to be registered if any given moment or sequence of moments were to be understood at all.”
History against Historicism, Formal Matters, and the Event of the Text: De Man with Benjamin
“Charles De Saussure is my friend, and I think he is most of a man of the two.”
“Mr. De Saussure is going soon to leave us and return home – you know for what.”
“Key figures in its evolution were Ro-land Barthes, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, who subjected the methodologies of the founding fathers of structuralism, such as Saussure and Lévi-Strauss, and the work of other seminal modern thinkers like Marx and Freud, to a scrutiny that was at once critical and creative.”
“Of Grammatology is in some accessible parts quite amusing, and I think its a parody of figures such as Saussure and Peirce, as well as Nietzsche.”
What is Philosophy? A Few Thoughts from a Non-expert on the Passing of Derrida and Reactions to It
“Lacan's contribution is mainly on Freudian psychoanalysis in the light of structural linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, and also structural linguistics of Jakobson, Russian linguistics, and he also used intensively philosophy, literature, arts and mathematics.”
The Huffington Post: Ehsan Azari Stanizai: Lacan and His Significance in Western Philosophy
“Saussure displayed unusual qualities for an epoch-making thinker: he was always in touch with humility and self-doubt and he had no interest whatsoever in publicity.”
“Saussure went on to wow them in Paris with his classes on Gothic and Old High German and Indo-European philology, and then he took a job back home in Geneva and things started to slow down for him.”
“In truth, Saussure felt demoralized and full of self-doubt.”
“Ferdinand de Saussure was a quiet Swiss gentleman, a passionate linguistician, and a dutiful academic.”
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