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Subject(s)

• Postmodernism [Browse]
• Semiotics [Browse]
• Realism [Browse]

Summary note

• "This book is a coherent argument about the meaning of the term "postmodern" as it applies to philosophy at the opening of the twenty-first century. The author makes the case that the twentieth-century development of the doctrine of signs, commonly known as semiotics, represents the positive essential thrust giving birth to a postmodern era of philosophy, as clean a break with modern thought as modern thought was with Latin scholasticism in the time of Galileo, Poinsot, and Descartes - but with a difference.
• Contrary to what the author dismisses as false claims of postmodernity, the work shows that what is truly postmodern in philosophy both goes beyond modernity and recovers philosophy's past in a renewed understanding of the human condition.
• The "problem of the external world," which modern philosophy began by creating, postmodern philosophy begins by revealing as a quasi-error. The book concludes with a philosophical dialogue revealing the inadequacy to the postmodern situation of a simple return to any past form of "realism," and explaining why the postmodern situation calls for a new definition of human being as "the semiotic animal.""--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-249) and index.

Contents

• The Impact on Philosophy of Semiotics
• The State of the Question
• Demarcating Modernity within Philosophy
• Why the Doctrine of Signs Is Not Modern
• Semiotics Is More than Peirce
• The Postmodern Definition of Human Being
• How Semiotics Restores Tradition to Philosophy
• The Language of Semiotics
• From Latin Signum to English Sign
• Where Is the Latin in the English Word "Semiotics"?
• Peirce's Privileged Purchase
• Classical Antiquity and Semiotics
• Prospective
• History as Laboratory and Landscape
• "Semiotica Utramque Comprehendit"
• Vale
• The Quasi-Error of the External World
• Betwixt and Between
• The Egg of Postmodernity
• The Egg Hatches
• Skirmishes on the Boundary
• Reality too Is a Word
• A Modeling System Biologically Underdetermined
• Blickwendung: A Glance in the Rear-View Mirror
• Updating the File
• Dialogue Between a 'Semiotist' and a 'Realist'
• "A Sign Is What?" A Conversation between a 'Semiotist' and a 'Realist'
• Diagram: The Semiotic Spiral.

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ISBN

• 1587313758 ((alk. paper))
• 9781587313752 ((alk. paper))

LCCN

2002151648

OCLC

50866885

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