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Stawarska's analysis provides overwhelming evidence that the misrepresentation of Saussure is bound up with the reduction of structuralism to a post-WWII French phenomenon cut off, on the one hand, from its prior developments and, on the other, from its contemporaneous deployments, especially in what was then communist Eastern Europe Miglena Nikolchina, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Stawarska writes well; her book is often both pleasant to read and thought-provoking ... erudite and inspiring. Anna Petronella Foultier, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online Stawarska has produced a landmark text that makes critical contributions to Saussures scholarship, continental views of language, the history of ideas, and serves as a key textual ally for feminist and decolonial perspectives on language and embodiment. What she accomplishes is nothing short of a rug-pulling inversion of Saussures thought that will also force metaphilosophical discussions in the classroom and conference halls alike. Elena Ruiz, Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences

Stawarska writes well; her book is often both pleasant to read and thought-provoking... erudite and inspiring --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online

Stawarska writes well; her book is often both pleasant to read and thought-provoking... erudite and inspiring --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online With this clearly argued and engaging study of Saussure, Beata Stawarska has done a great service to the broad, ongoing effort to radically reassess the established historiography not only of structuralism or phenomenology, but of pre-war European intellectual history as a whole. --Phenomenological Reviews With its combination of philological rigour, historical accuracy and philosophical brightness, Stawarska's book is bound to become a text of great import. --Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio Stawarska's analysis provides overwhelming evidence that the misrepresentation of Saussure is bound up with the reduction of structuralism to a post-WWII French phenomenon cut off, on the one hand, from its prior developments and, on the other, from its contemporaneous deployments, especially in what was then communist Eastern Europe -- Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Stawarska has produced a landmark text that makes critical contributions to Saussure's scholarship, continental views of language, the history of ideas, and serves as a key textual ally for feminist and decolonial perspectives on language and embodiment. What she accomplishes is nothing short of a rug-pulling inversion of Saussure's thought that will also force metaphilosophical discussions in the classroom and conference halls alike. -- Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences Stawarska's lucid and energetic analysis questions the identification of Saussure with prevalent views on structuralism and makes the case for reexamining Saussure's legacy from a phenomenological perspective in order to reveal philosophical complexity of his work. In doing so, her study succeeds in challenging received ideas with broader implications, emphasizing the need to rethink the history of ideas in Europe and to retrace the intellectual connections severed after the Second World War. -- Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Philosophy

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Beata Stawarska is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is an author of Between You and I: Dialogical Phenomenology (Ohio UP, 2009) and a number of essays in contemporary European Philosophy. Recent recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship for Advanced Researchers, Stawarska is an expert in phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism.

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