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The use of the name of others,
By Larry & Cecile Johnson (Sherman Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers (Hardcover)
The previous review was done by one of our specialists in Semiology who had the three volumes of the original work of the Prague Linguistic Circle. Being the advertising of the work on the online bookstore very vague : it does not mention that this "Circle" is the New Linguistic Circle (as known in Paris), the reviewer reviewed the original texts which are unedited in English. Some of their American editions were in fact offered to us in almost unique form by Amazon.com : between the original works we received (already out of print) were the writings from the 70s produced in USA which are almost impossible to get anywhere else. Thanks to Amazon for this effort. But the Travaux announced here are not the original work. Be careful not to make the error we made! The Prague Linguistic Circle (the original one which is where the important work was done!) was, as it is already stated in the book review, founded in 1926 by six scholars. This Circle was closed by the new marxist line of thought in 1946 and the work of the original thinkers exorcized and many of the important articles were lost forever. The work of the original Linguistic Circle of Prague appeared in series called Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Prague and it contained the works of the writers about whom the person who wrote the original review here is referring to. These (the referred work which is still unedited in its totality) are the only work of the Prague Linguistic Circle which has the right to be called in this way. The "New" Linguistic Circles of Prague (70s and 90s) are nothing else but very poor re-chiewing of the original work. Not only their mediocrity but also the lack of crietria is overhelming. They refer to Derrida and the French school as they have been doing favors to the original masters in not mentioning them but exploiting their thought. The members of the "new Circle" feel almost grateful about the work of Derrida (representing the most empty postmodern French rethorics) who in fact is very behind what the original Circle did and discovered. It is a pity that instead of trying to create their own line of thought this people is trying to sell totally irrelevant semiotics to the price of the old masters who they are unable and unskilled to reach. PhD Cecile Leduc , Prof in Semiology at Paris I and Lund, Sweden
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Origins of European Semiology and French Modernity,
By Larry & Cecile Johnson (Sherman Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers (Hardcover)
The Linguistic Circle of Prague was founded in 1926 in the office of Mathesius at the Charles University of Prague. The papers of the scholars working in the Circle are now published by Eva Hajicova et. al. This is a major contribution to the study of the work of this famous group creator of the theory of Structuralism and forunner of modern European Semiology. The books (three volumes) contain the most important papers published by the members of the Circle between 1926 - 1948. Between them is to be found a large amount of the most important work of Roman Jacobson, who coined the term Structuralism and defined it in the paper (writen with Karcevskji) for the First Congress of Slavic languages in Prague in 1929. Between the Papers publlished in the volumes are also those of Vetruskij: papers in the Semiotics of theater, of Peter Bogatyrev: about Semiotics of the folklore and the folklore "dress" which served as the moving ideas for the work of Roland Barthes (see: his writings about the Semiotic of Fashion), and many of whose concepts are to be found unreferred in the work of the popular Juan Baudrillard. The major definitions of the Prague School which appear in these papers, will change the way the American Academies have looked at the French Semiology which arrives 40 years later (after Prague) but is still regarded as the founder and the basic form of European Semiology. These volumes are basic reading for those who are really interested in the problems of aesthetics of the linguistic and artistic signs, in the semiology of the cinema and the visual arts. The papers of Mukarovskij developed the Semiology of Art (as the notion of esthetic sign) beyond everything we know today. The poetics and the meaning of the poetic language are the field of the papers of Roman Jacobson, who lived and worded in the United States. The fact that the book is published in English is important and is an historical event in the filed of Semiotics. Books to have for everyone interested in Semiotics, Structuralism, and Aesthetics.
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