20th century · 1857–1913
Who did Ferdinand de Saussure influence?
Students and legacy
Signifier meets signified: founded modern linguistics and handed philosophy its structural turn.
Ferdinand de Saussure influenced Roman Jakobson, Émile Benveniste, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. That is 5 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
Read on Wikipedia Portrait: "F. Jullien Genève", maybe Frank-Henri Jullien (1882–1938), CC BY-SA 4.0 See the whole map
Who was Ferdinand de Saussure?
Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist and is widely counted among the founders of 20th-century linguistics. With Charles Sanders Peirce he also founded semiotics, which he called semiology.
His ideas reached well beyond linguistics into philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology and anthropology, and the ways of organising language he introduced still inform how language is studied. Leonard Bloomfield wrote that he had given us the theoretical basis for a science of human speech.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Ferdinand de Saussure influence?
5 thinkers on this map draw directly on Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Roman Jakobson 1896–1982
- Émile Benveniste 1902–1976
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
- Roland Barthes 1915–1980
- Jacques Derrida 1930–2004
Two steps away from Ferdinand de Saussure
The second generation
- Through Roman Jakobson: Louis Hjelmslev, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Tzvetan Todorov
- Through Roland Barthes: Gérard Genette
Contemporaries of Ferdinand de Saussure
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Ferdinand de Saussure, with no direct line between them.
- Georgi Plekhanov 1856–1918
- Georg Simmel 1858–1918
- Henri Bergson 1859–1941
- John Dewey 1859–1952
- Edmund Husserl 1859–1938
- Vladimir Solovyov 1853–1900
- Max Weber 1864–1920
- Gottlob Frege 1848–1925
Ferdinand de Saussure by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 5 — #19 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 10
- Wikipedia languages
- 96 — #10 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- Structuralists: Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman Jakobson, Louis Hjelmslev, Émile Benveniste, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Algirdas Julien Greimas, Jacques Lacan, Umberto Eco
Questions about Ferdinand de Saussure
- Who influenced Ferdinand de Saussure?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Who did Ferdinand de Saussure influence?
- Roman Jakobson, Émile Benveniste, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida.
- When did Ferdinand de Saussure live?
- 1857–1913. The map files Ferdinand de Saussure under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Ferdinand de Saussure card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Ferdinand de Saussure in 96 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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- Albert Camus 1913–1960
- Max Weber 1864–1920
- Simone de Beauvoir 1908–1986
- Bertrand Russell 1872–1970
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889–1951
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
- Umberto Eco 1932–2016