Saussure

John Joseph

University of Edinburgh

Oxford University Press

2012

Abstract

In the first comprehensive biography of Ferdinand de Saussure, John E. Joseph restores the full character and history of a man who is considered the founder of modern linguistics and whose ideas have influenced literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, and virtually every other branch of humanities and the social sciences.

Reviews

• Valentina Bisconti, Alessandro Chidichimo, "John E. Joseph, Saussure" Histoire Épistémologie Langage 38 (1), 2016, pp. 159-166

Cited authors

de Saussure Ferdinand