Peirce's Doctrine of Signs : : Theory, Applications, and Connections / / ed. by Thomas M. Olshewsky, Vincent M. Colapietro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Philosophy 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Braga, Lucia Santaella,; Brunet, François,; Colapietro, Vincent M.,; Daube-Schackat, Roland,; Debrock, Guy,; Deely, John,; Elgin, Catherine Z.,; Factor, R. Lance,; Ferraresi, Mauro,; Fitzgerald, John J.,; Freadman, Anne,; Freundlieb, Dieter,; Hausman, Carl R.,; Heusden, Barend van,; Howard, Vernon A.,; Jappy, Anthony,; Johansen, Jørgen Dines,; Joswick, Hugh,; Kalaga, Wojciech,; Larsen, Svend Erik,; Lavine, Thelma Z.,; Merrell, Floyd,; Meyers, Robert G.,; Miller, Marjorie C.,; Olshewsky, Thomas M.,; Pape, Helmut,; Petrilli, Susan,; Pettigrew, David E.,; Ponzio, Augusto,; Riemer, Ines,; Scheffler, Israel,; Sheriff, John,; Weinsheimer, Joel,; Wolde, Ellen van,
• HerausgeberIn: Colapietro, Vincent M.,; Olshewsky, Thomas M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 123
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (463 p.)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Citations of Peirce's works
• Part 1. A general theory of signs: Its possibility and purpose
• General theories, vague utterances, and fruitful inquiries
• The philosophic significance of Peirce’s theory of signs
• Vagueness, generality, and undeciding otherness
• The Grand Vision
• Part 2. Peirce’s conception of semiosis: Presuppositions and articulations
• Peirce’s conception of habit
• Information and the metaphysical status of the sign
• Part 3. The components of semiosis
• The object of semeiotic
• Object and final cause in Peirce’s semeiotic
• Antetension, indexicality, and possible worlds
• The ground of semiosis: An implied theory of perspectival realism?
• Part 4. The classification of signs
• Peirce’s second classification of signs
• Peirce’s doctrine of symbol
• Symbol, ritual and cognition
• Index and icon revisited
• Part 5. The semiosis of metaphor
• Peirce and the interaction view of metaphor
• From pure icon to metaphor: Six degrees of iconicity
• On the neglect of Peirce’s views on metaphor in current theories of iconicity
• Peirce’s definition of metaphor and its consequences
• Part 6. Semiotics and aesthetics
• Aesthetic and artistic semiosis: A Peircean perspective
• Peirce on fiction: Introduction to an author-orientated semiotics
• Literary art: Meaning as a sign of possibility
• Arguments about icons
• Othello and Iago: Twins or opponents? On identity in literary semiotics
• Visual semiotics versus pragmaticism: Peirce and photography
• Music as icon: A critique of twentieth century music semiotic
• Part 7. Philosophy, linguistics and semiotics
• Sign structure and sign event in Saussure, Hjelmslev, and Peirce
• Relating European structuralist semiotics to American Peircean semeiotic
• Peirce and medieval semiotics
• Peirce and Derrida: From sign to sign
• Part 8. Semiotics and hermeneutics
• Peirce and hermeneutics
• Hermeneutic aspects in the light of Peirce’s methodology
• A word is not a sign: Hermeneutic semiotics and Peirce’s “Ethics of terminology”
• Peirce’s pragmatic maxim and K.-O. Apel’s idea of a contemplementary hermeneutical science
• Peirce, pragmatism, and interpretation theory
• The construction of a Peircean hermeneutics
• Index