Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Philosophy of Language, Part 2
I wanted to write a book that is situated, broadly speaking within contemporary European philosophy of language. And I was amazed to discover that this canonical text is very much removed from the source materials in which it's based. So I felt that we know very little about this great book,. and that we gained something by really attending to how this book was made. The second book came out in 2015, this is a serious philosophy of language as a phenomenology. This one focused more expressly on this question of language and linguisticality.
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