A review by frogwithlittlehammer
Ferdinand de Saussure by Jonathan Culler

challenging informative reflective

4.5

NO ONE TALKING ABOUT LINGUISTICS WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT LINGUISTICS.

Culler does a sparkling and effective job at demonstrating why Saussure is daddy linguistics in the shadows (and we are in praise of shadows we are). He talks about all the right guys (yeah, it’s guys) and times and fields of study and when you take a step back, you are presented with a damn lucid and gossamer web of semiology, linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, marxism, teleology, philosophy and theory. Aka all of my things! First time in a long time I’ve felt excited about the academic world, and wouldn’t you know it’s a discover made in the 19th century! So I’ve got to study this stuff, and as a bonus I might be pardoned from roko’s basilisk yet. 

+1 “As kingfishers catch fire” shoutout

-1 missed opportunity for chomsky slander 

Left linguistwix>right linguistwix 😼