Four Ages of Understanding : : The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century /

Four Ages of Understanding : : The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century / / John Deely.

This book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in philosophy for the next fifty or so years. By making the theory of signs the dominant theme in "Four Ages of Understanding", John Deely has produced a history of philosophy that is innovative, original, and complete. The first f...

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Deely, John,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Aviso: Why Read This Book?
  • Contents at a Glance
  • Contents in Detail
  • List of Tables and Illustrations
  • Reconocimientos
  • Preface: The Boundary of Time
  • CHAPTER ONE: Society and Civilization: The Prelude to Philosophy
  • PART ONE: Ancient Philosophy
  • CHAPTER TWO: Philosophy as Physics
  • CHAPTER THREE: The Golden Age: Philosophy Expands Its Horizon
  • CHAPTER FOUR: The Final Greek Centuries and the Overlap of Neoplatonism with Christianity
  • PART TWO: The Latin Age
  • CHAPTER FIVE: The Geography of the Latin Age
  • CHAPTER SIX: The So-Called Dark Ages
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: Cresting a Wave: The Second Stage
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: The Fate of Sign in the Later Latin Age
  • CHAPTER NINE: Three Outcomes, Two Destinies
  • CHAPTER TEN: The Road Not Taken
  • PART THREE: The Modern Period
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN: Beyond the Latin Umwelt: Science Comes of Age
  • CHAPTER TWELVE: The Founding Fathers: Rene Descartes and John Locke
  • CHAPTER 13: Synthesis and Successors: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Locke Again: The Scheme of Human Knowledge
  • PART FOUR: Postmodern Times
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Charles Sanders Peirce and the Recovery of Signum
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Semiology: Modernity's Attempt to Treat the Sign
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: At the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: At the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
  • Historically Layered References
  • Gloss on the References
  • Index: RERUM ET PERSONARUM
  • Timetable of Figures

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