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Originally published as "Le Mirage linguistique," this book remains
the definitive study of the role of linguistics in structuralism
and poststructuralism. Thomas Pavel examines recent French thought
through the work of luminaries such as Levi-Strauss, Lacan,
Foucault, and Derrida. The "spell of language" for Pavel consists
of three things: the promise that linguistics seemed to represent
for the humanities and social sciences; the distortions,
misunderstandings, and willful neglect incumbent upon the
"linguistic turn"; and, above all, the break with traditional
humanism. He isolates three modes of thought-moderate
structuralism, scientific structuralism, and speculative
structuralism-and shows how even as they diverge from each other,
they all advocate an antihumanist point of view.
In this spirited book, Pavel shows that structuralism's flawed use
of linguistic theory has rendered hollow the philosophical core of
a whole generation of work in the human sciences.
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