Quelques problèmes philologiques posés par l’œuvre de Saussure

This paper aims to raise some difficulties inherent in the status of Saussure’s “work”. Having published little, but written much, Saussure has left us (together with his theories) a philological problem which is far from being resolved – most of his manuscripts (90% approximately) remaining unpublished, and most of his ideas have remained unfinished. We intend to highlight the need to take explicitly, in editing and transmitting Saussurean “ideas” and “work”, a coherent set of philological principles, fit for showing the state of the this particular “text” without distortion.status: publishe