Entangling Forms : : Within Semiosic Processes / / Floyd Merrell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Merrell, Floyd,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

The volume draws from Charles S. Peirce's pragmatic philosophy, as well as from diverse areas in contemporary arts and sciences, and certain facets of Buddhist philosophy – especially regarding notions of interconnectedness, self-organization, and co-participation of the knowing subject with her inner world, her socio-cultural world, and her physical environment. Contradictory, complementary, and coalescence are also fundamental watchwords, in addition to entanglement. 'Contradictory', since conflicts, clashes and inconsistencies there will always be, in spite attempts to resolve them. 'Complementarity', since poles of opposition can at least provisionally be resolved by mediation and moderation, however vaguely and ambiguously, such that consonance might emerge from dissonance, balance from imbalance, and accord from discord. And 'coalescence', since the union of disparities is an ongoing, and always incomplete, process; it is never fixed product. These concepts, along with the key word, entanglement, place Peirce in a new light, giving rise to new questions and possible responses from readers who are searching for alternate means of understanding in our increasingly complex, rapidly globalizing world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 – The play of musement -- Chapter 3 – From Nothing to One to Many: plurimorphity -- Chapter 4 – Simply 'it' -- Chapter 5 – What emerges from the unthinkable -- Chapter 6 – Two worlds -- Chapter 7 – We co-participate with what is becoming -- Chapter 8 – An alternate view of the process -- Chapter 9 – More on Peirce, and pragmatism -- Chapter 10 – Process patterned through topology -- Chapter 11 – How past, present, and future entangle living -- Chapter 12 – Complexly entangled timespace -- Chapter 13 – The tacit dimension again -- Chapter 14 – From the mark of distinction's source -- Chapter 15 – Neither here nor there nor now nor then -- Chapter 16 – Signifying the form -- Chapter 17 – The universe: a book to be read? -- Backmatter