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Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Signs: Essays in Comparative Semiotics

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0253337364, 9780253337368
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1578954 bytes)
Series
Advances in Semiotics
Pages
216\213
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Charles S. Peirce’s Philosophy of Signs examines Peirce’s philosophy and semiotic thought from a European perspective, comparing the American’s unique views with a wide variety of work by thinkers from the ancients to moderns. Parts I and II deal with the philosophical paradigms which are at the root of Peirce’s new theory of signs, pragmatic and social. The main concepts analyzed are those of "sign" and "semiosis" and their respective trichotomies; formally in the case of "sign," in time in the case of semiosis. Part III is devoted to comparing Peirce’s theory of semiotics as a form of logic to the work of other philosophers, including Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Frege, Philodemus, Lady Welby, Saussure, Morris, Jakobson, and Marshall McLuhan. Part IV compares Peirce’s "scientific metaphysics" with European metaphysics.

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