For the Love of Language/L'Amour De LA Langue

by Jean-Claude Milner, Ann Banfield

This book brings into contact what nevertheless remains distinct, two different conceptions of language, the linguist's and the non-linguist's, whether psychoanalyst or poet. A characteristic feature of our recent intellectual history was the conjunction of a universal valorization of theoretical discourse in an array of disciplines, ranging from the so-called 'human' sciences to poetics and psychoanalysis, and the simultaneous elevation of linguistics to the status of a model for the construction of theories.

143 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Mariam Rawwas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deploying Koyré's epistemology of science to the linguistic field, Milner ciphers Chomskyian transformational grammar as "Galilean," Jakobson as a return to Aristotle occasioned by the Saussure-event.