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“... Sir Isaiah Berlin’s wide range of interests and achievements illustrates the pluralism he admires: music critic, philosopher, writer, professor, civil servant, administrator, college president, fund-raiser, committee man, a lecturer with the rare ability to hold audiences entranced with his enthusiastic display of the living word in crowded lecture halls, on the radio and on television ...”

“... The modest title of Hans Aarsleff’s book From Locke to Saussure conceals, among other things, the fact that it goes a long way beyond Saussure. Its implications reach right down to linguistic controversies which continue unabated at the present day. The 14 essays presented in this volume undoubtedly include what must, by any standards, rank among the most stimulating writing on language and European thought to have been published during the past quarter of a century ...”

“... made such distinctions clear in trying to write about ‘general linguistics’. And, as argued by Hans Aarsleff among others, parts of this general framework had already been systematised by widely influential figures in Paris before and during Saussure’s years teaching there, for example the linguist Michel Bréal, the historian and critic Hippolyte ...”