20th century · 1902–1976
Who influenced Émile Benveniste?
Influences and legacy
Linguist who made subjectivity and the speech act a matter of language.
Émile Benveniste was influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure, and went on to influence Roland Barthes. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Who was Émile Benveniste?
Émile Benveniste was a French structural linguist and semiotician born in the Ottoman Empire. He is best known for his work on the Indo-European languages and for his critical reworking of the model of language set out by Ferdinand de Saussure.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Émile Benveniste?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Ferdinand de Saussure 1857–1913
Who did Émile Benveniste influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Émile Benveniste.
- Roland Barthes 1915–1980
Two steps away from Émile Benveniste
The second generation
- Through Roland Barthes: Gérard Genette
Contemporaries of Émile Benveniste
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Émile Benveniste, with no direct line between them.
- Karl Popper 1902–1994
- Alexandre Kojève 1902–1968
- Theodor W. Adorno 1903–1969
- Jacques Lacan 1901–1981
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980
- Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–2002
- Gilbert Ryle 1900–1976
- Jean-Paul Sartre 1905–1980
Émile Benveniste by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 2
- Wikipedia languages
- 35 — #66 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Schools and lineages
Questions about Émile Benveniste
- Who influenced Émile Benveniste?
- Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Who did Émile Benveniste influence?
- Roland Barthes.
- When did Émile Benveniste live?
- 1902–1976. The map files Émile Benveniste under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Émile Benveniste card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Émile Benveniste in 35 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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