Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics.
His lectures posthumously published as the Course in General Linguistics ushered in the
structuralist mode which marked a key turning point in modern thought. Philosophers such as
Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes psychoanalysts such as Jacques Lacan the anthropologist
ClaudeLevi-Strauss and linguists such as Noam Chomsky all found an important influence for
their work in the pages of Saussure's text. Published 100 years after Saussure's death this
new edition of Roy Harris's authoritative translation is now available in the Bloomsbury
Revelations series with a substantial new introduction exploring Saussure's contemporary
influence and importance.
