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Classical phenomenology has suffered from an individualist bias and
a neglect of the communicative structure of experience, especially
the phenomenological importance of the addressee, the
inseparability of I and You, and the nature of the alternation
between them. Beata Stawarska remedies this neglect by bringing
relevant contributions from cognate empirical disciplines--
such as sociolinguistics and developmental psychology, as well as
the dialogic tradition in philosophy--to bear on phenomenological
inquiry. Taken together, these contributions substantiate an
alternative view of primary I-You connectedness and help foreground
the dialogic dimension of both prediscursive and discursive
experience. "Between You and I" suggests that phenomenology is best
practiced in a dialogical engagement with other disciplines.
Hegel is most often mentioned - and not without good reason - as
one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in
Western philosophy. But his thought also played a crucial and
formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the
'decolonial turn', Frantz Fanon. This would be inexplicable if it
were not for the much-quoted 'lord-bondsman' dialectic - frequently
referred to as the 'master-slave dialectic' - described in Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit. Fanon takes up this dialectic negatively
in contexts of violence-riven (post-)slavery and colonialism; yet
in works such as Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the
Earth he upholds a Hegelian-inspired vision of freedom. The essays
in this collection offer close readings of Hegel's text, and of
responses to it in the work of twentieth-century philosophers, that
highlight the entangled history of the translations, transpositions
and transformations of Hegel in the work of Fanon, and more
generally in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts.
This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an
interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly
developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de
Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) today. It
critically assesses the relation between materials from the Course
and from the linguist's Nachlass (works unpublished or even unknown
at Saussure's death, some of them recently discovered). This book
pays close attention to the set of oppositional pairings: the
signifier and the signified, la langue (language system) and la
parole (speech), and synchrony and diachrony, that became the
hallmark of structuralism across the humanities. Sometimes referred
to as the "Saussurean doctrine," this hierarchical conceptual
apparatus becomes revised in favor of a horizontal set of
relations, which co-involves speaking subjects and linguistic
structures. This book documents the continued relevance of
Saussure's linguistics in the 21st Century, and it sheds light on
its legacy within structuralism and phenomenology. The reader can
consult the book on its own, or in tandem with the 1916 Course.
This book draws on recent developments in research on Ferdinand de
Saussure's general linguistics to challenge the structuralist
doctrine associated with the posthumous Course in General
Linguistics (1916) and to develop a new philosophical
interpretation of Saussure's conception of language based solely on
authentic source materials. This project follows two new editorial
paradigms: 1. a critical re-examination of the 1916 Course in light
of the relevant sources and 2. a reclamation of the historically
authentic materials from Saussure's Nachlass, some of them recently
discovered. In Stawarska's book, this editorial paradigm shift
serves to expose the difficulties surrounding the official
Saussurean doctrine with its sets of oppositional pairings: the
signifier and the signified; la langue and la parole; synchrony and
diachrony. The book therefore puts pressure not only on the
validity of the posthumous editorial redaction of Saussure's course
in general linguistics in the Course, but also on its structuralist
and post-structuralist legacy within the works of Levi-Strauss,
Lacan, and Derrida. Its constructive contribution consists in
reclaiming the writings from Saussure's Nachlass in the service of
a linguistic phenomenology, which intersects individual expression
in the present with historically sedimented social conventions.
Stawarska develops such a conception of language by engaging
Saussure's own reflections with relevant writings by Hegel,
Husserl, Roman Jakobson, and Merleau-Ponty. Finally, she enriches
her philosophical critique with a detailed historical account of
the material and institutional processes that led to the
ghostwriting and legitimizing the Course as official Saussurean
doctrine.
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