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“... left, the script reads, brooding on the sins of American foreign policy – it is now or never for Ferdinand deSaussure to take his place. One theorist of language at a time is probably all the popular awareness has room for, and over the past twenty years Chomsky has been it, investing grammar with a new, deep-seated ...”

“... Ferdinand deSaussure, who died in 1913 at the age of 55, sowed the seeds of structuralist thought that first took root in linguistics, then effloresced throughout the 20th century in fields as seemingly distinct as literary criticism, architecture, social anthropology and psychoanalysis ...”

“... that many of Lacan’s writings had been allowed to go out of print! The concept of stade de miroir which is of ‘crucial importance from Lacan’s viewpoint’ dates from 1936. The same commentator remarked that the best introduction to the thought of Lacan was a lecture given in 1946 which was not written in ‘the dense and hermetic style of much ...”

“... linguistics was an amalgam of ideas sometimes seen as going back to the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand deSaussure, who himself was strongly influenced by the sociological theories of Durkheim. De Saussure’s main contribution was to show that the study of language need ...”

“... of relativism since the Sixties, it is at least mildly interesting to learn that cynical old Ferdinand deSaussure ‘began his courses of lectures on general linguistics in Paris in 1907’. And it is diverting to be told that the ferocious Friedrich Nietzsche was a ‘sexually inexperienced invalid’ who ...”

“... them, or getting them to confess, and Wolfson evokes an interesting ambiguity in a remark by Paul de Man and its citation by Marjorie Garber. De Man writes of ‘making the death speak’, which in Garber’s quotation becomes ‘making the dead speak’. As Wolfson notes, the quotation has its logic and perhaps the ...”

“... and not long afterwards he delved into Russian and Polish Constructivism as well as Dutch De Stijl. Such interests, no less than his methods, made Bois foreign to the dominant concerns of art history and criticism in France as well as the United States. His primary targets in both countries were the same: a reductive use of iconology, which ...”

“... fashion system. In the background, along with Jakobson and other Russians, was the Swiss linguist Ferdinand deSaussure, who in the early years of the century had taught his students that etymology and structure were two different things: his favourite analogy was chess, where the story of the game so far is ...”

“... Emile Durkheim and that other Swiss monument whose lectures were nearly lost to us, Ferdinand deSaussure, men of very different interests, much more serious and objective, and of a much more rigorous bent. Durkheim’s study of suicide, for instance, a foundation-stone of modern sociology, couldn’t be ...”