Peirce, Signs, and Meaning / / Floyd Merrell.
C.S. Peirce was the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer in the field of semiotics. His work investigated the problem of meaning, which is the core aspect of semiosis as well as a significant issue in many academic fields. Floyd Merrell demonstrates throughout Peirce, Signs, and Meaning that Peirce&#...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (402 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Preamble: Is Meaning Possible within Indefinite Semiosis
- Part I: All Too Human?
- 1. Our Blissful Unknowing Knowing
- 2. The Self as a Sign among Signs
- Part II: Or Merely What Comes Naturally?
- 3. Thought-Signs: Jungle or Wasteland?
- 4. Sign-Events Meet Thought-Signs
- 5. The Sign: Mirror or Lamp?
- An Interlude
- 6. Whither Meaning, Then?
- Part III: Or Perhaps Merely Signs among Signs?
- 7. Fabricated Rather than Found
- 8. What Else Is a Self-Respecting Sign to Do?
- 9. Caught Within
- Part IV: If So, Then into the Breakers, Vortices, Cross-Currents, and Undertows of Semiosis
- 10. Dreaming the Impossible Dream?
- 11. How We Can Go Wrong
- 12. Rules Are There to Be Broken?
- 13. From Conundrum to Quality Icon
- Part V: And Finally, Navigating Back, Wherever That Was
- 14. Out of Sign, Out of Mind
- 15. Putting the Body Back in the Sign
- Appendix: On the Pragmatic Maxim
- References
- Index