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a доктор экономических наук, профессор кафедры «Финансы и кредит», Государственный университет морского и речного флота им. адмирала С.О. Макарова,

critically, while any contrary arguments are contemptuously dismissed. With embarrassing bathos Saussure is placed on the same level as Einstein.The former, in so far as his ideas can be reconstructed from his students' notes, had some interesting things to say about language, and naturally assertions regarding language or discourse feature very prominently throughout the volume. What is wholly missing, however, whether in Saussure, Ermarth or her approved authors, is any conception of the reality that language evolved as a tool which conferred major survival advantages on a bipedal primate living upon the African savannah, advantages without which Ermarth would not be around today to write her book nor me to review it. Rather, language here appears to be treated as a metaphysical dowry which somehow dropped out of the sky.In her closing chapters Ermarth writes quite eloquently of the grim condition that the world currently finds itself in, but underlying it all is the notion that formal experimentation with language or other discursive systems somehow adds up to acts of resistance against malign political forces, or even to a revolutionary programme. On the whole that appears to be unlikely.

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