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The author shows that structuralism's use of linguistic theory has rendered hollow the philosophical core of a generation of work in the human sciences. He isolates three modes of thought and shows how they all, despite differences, advocate an antihumanist point of view.

The Spell of Language

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 December 2001
      ISBN-13 9780226650678
      978-0226650678
      ISBN-10 0226650677
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      Philosophy of language Philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      The author shows that structuralism's use of linguistic theory has rendered hollow the philosophical core of a generation of work in the human sciences. He isolates three modes of thought and shows how they all, despite differences, advocate an antihumanist point of view.

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