Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
New Books in Language
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The Seance and the Seance to Divination in the Book
The editors often note that they preferred to infer or in the French diviné what sesear is innermost ideas were. I compare this method or this sort of the seance to divination in the book. So I think the seance is kind of this method of using intuition, of divining what somebody really believes, what his innermost thoughts are. It tells us a lot about how academic institutions operate and it indicates these elementary kinship structures in the academy.
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