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The Spell of Language

Poststructuralism and Speculation

  • Paperback
  • 184 pages
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • 16.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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Originally published as "Le Mirage Linguistique", this test studies the role of linguistics in structuralism and poststructuralism. Thomas G. Pavel examines French thought through the work of luminaries such as Levi-Struss, Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida. The "spell of language" for Pavel consists of three things: the promise that linguistics seemed to represent for the humanites and social sciences; the distortions, misunderstandings, and wilful neglect incumberant upon the "linguistic turn"; and above all, the break with traditional humanism. He isolates three modes of thought - moderate structuralism, scientific structuralism and speculative structuralism - and shows how even as they diverge from each other, they all advocate an antihumanist point of view. In this book, Thomas Pavel shows that structuralism's flawed use of linguistic theory has rendered hollow the philosophical core of a whole generation of work in the human sciences.
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  • Title

    The Spell of Language

  • Author

    Thomas G. Pavel

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The University of Chicago Press

  • Published

    October 2001

  • Weight

    282g

  • Page Count

    184

  • Dimensions

    16.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780226650678

  • ISBN-10

    0226650677

  • Eden Code

    4565151

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