Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Sessor's Disillusionment With the Complexity of Language
Sessor was very disillusioned with the state of the sciences at his time and he thought that science is needed to undergo a radical reform. He resisted publishing kind of a recognizable academic treatise himself so I think that he is consumed with this question of, you know, how do we begin philosophy or science. The scholar is a speaking subject as well and so is entangled and immersed in the very notion or object so-called that is to be examined," she says. "This here is a very complex, self-reflective, philosophical thinking"
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