SubjectsPhilosophy / Semiotics
Book series
ISSN 0761-022X
Semiotic Crossroads
Edited by Paolo Fabbri, Herman Parret, Paul Perron and Eric Landowski
ISSN 0922-5072
Realism and Individualism: Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism
Mateusz W. Oleksy
Realism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce's early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely… read more[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 55] 2015. ix, 350 pp.
Peirce and Value Theory: On Peircian ethics and aesthetics
Edited by Herman Parret
Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Congress (Harvard University, September 1989). The volume is devoted to themes within Peirce's value theory and offers a comprehensive view of less known aspects of his influential philosophy, in… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 6] 1994. xiii, 381 pp.
Signs, Dialogue and Ideology
Augusto Ponzio
Signs, Dialogue and Ideology illustrates and critically examines both historically and theoretically the current state of semiotic discourse from Peirce to Bakhtin, through Saussure, Levinas, Schaff and Rossi-Landi to modern semioticians such as Umberto Eco. Ponzio is in search of a method to… read more[Critical Theory, 11] 1993. xviii, 185 pp.
Signs, Science and Politics: Philosophies of language in Europe 1700–1830
Lia Formigari
This book tells the story of how 18th-century European philosophy used Locke's theory of signs to build a natural history of speech and to investigate the semiotic tools with which nature and civil society can be controlled. The story ends at the point where this approach to language sciences was… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 70] 1993. x, 218 pp.
La Charpente modale du sens: Pour une sémio-linguistique morphogénétique et dynamique
Per Aage Brandt
Cet ouvrage est consacré à l'analyse des modalités épistémiques, aléthiques, déontiques et ontiques et propose une réécriture de la théorie de Greimas à partir d'une nouvelle conception dynamique du phénomène modal. L'introduction et l'interrogation sémiotique de la théorie des catastrophes de… read more[Nouveaux Actes Sémiotiques, 2] 1992. 370 pp.
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan and others
Michel Arrivé
If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult not to find on a single page references to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning-passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short, the unconscious is… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 4] 1992. xvi, 178 pp.
Logical Semiotics & Mereology
Richard M. Martin
The papers in this volume are concerned with a variety of vitally important topics in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of science, and in the application of modern logic to wider philosophical problems. All of them make fundamental use,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 16] 1992. xiii, 282 pp.
De betekenis als verhaal: Semiotische opstellen
Algirdas Julien Greimas
De Franse semioticus Algirdas Julien Greimas is ongetwijfeld een van de belangrijkste denkers in het Europese structuralisme. Zijn werk vormt dan ook de inspiratiebron voor onderzoekers uit diverse disciplines. Het Greimassiaanse model gaat er immers vanuit dat de meest uiteenlopende verschijnselen… read more[Semiotisch Perspectief, 1] 1991. x, 245 pp.
The Empire of Signs: Semiotic essays on Japanese culture
Edited by Yoshihiko Ikegami
Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L’Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture.read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 8] 1991. xii, 333 pp.
Het semiotisch pragmatisme van Charles S. Peirce
Onder redactie van Hans van Driel
Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is een invloedrijke Amerikaanse wetenschapsfilosoof. Hij is de grondlegger het van semiotisch pragmatisme, een tegenhanger van het structuralisme van Ferdinand de Saussure.De filosofie van Peirce gaat er vanuit dat kennis over de werkelijkheid niet anders kan worden… read more[Semiotisch Perspectief, 2] 1991. 139 pp.
Semiological Investigations, or Topics Pertaining to the General Theory of Signs: Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, si ve quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789)
Johann Cristoph Hoffbauer
Reprint of the original Latin text Tentamina semiologica, sive quaedam generalem theoriam signorum spectantia (1789), edited, translated and with an Introduction by Robert E. Innis The 33 sections of this classic text by Hoffbauer have a twofold focus: a descriptive inventory of signs, and a… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 4] 1991. xxxi, 116 pp.
Sémiotique en jeu: A partir et autour de l'œuvre d'A.J. Greimas
Sous la direction de Michel Arrivé et Jean-Claude Coquet
Fruit d’une décade tenue au Centre culturel de Cerisy en 1983, l’ouvrage réunit une quinzaine de contributions qui sont autant de signes d’ouverture de la part d’une discipline en cours d’évolution. La mise en question porte á la fois sur les postulats (philosophiques et épistémologiques) de la… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 5] 1991. 334 pp.
Charles S. Peirce, 1839–1914: An intellectual biography
Gérard Deledalle
This work is the intellectual biography of the greatest of American philosophers. Peirce was not only a pioneer in logic and the creator of a philosophical movement pragmatism he also proposed a phenomenological theory, quite different from that of Husserl, but equal in profundity; and long before… read more[Not in series, 42] 1990. xxxii, 92 pp.
The Language of Psychotherapy
Rudolf Ekstein
Ekstein's book brings together papers on a number of themes which have occupied his thinking during the last 40 years. In the Wiener Kreis, the Vienna circle of philosophers, he studied, together with his professor Moritz Schlick, the philosophy of science, the analysis of language, and the… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 11] 1989. xviii, 336 pp.
On the Medieval Theory of Signs
Edited by Umberto Eco and Costantino Marmo
In the course of the long debate on the nature and the classification of signs, from Boethius to Ockham, there are at least three lines of thought: the Stoic heritage, that influences Augustine, Abelard, Francis Bacon; the Aristotelian tradition, stemming from the commentaries on De… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 21] 1989. ix, 224 pp.
Paris School Semiotics: Volume II: Practice
Edited by Paul Perron and Frank Collins
It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 3] 1989. xv, 225 pp.
Le sublime du quotidien
Herman Parret
Une phénoménologie de la quotidienneté révèle des moments de fracture esthétique. L'interruption du sublime engendre des instants d'allégresse et de bonheur, et confirme notre sentiment d'existence. L'aisthèsis quotidienne transcende de loin l'eidétique du regard et de la lumière; elle n'est… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 6] 1988. 294 pp.
Charles S. Peirce's Method of Methods
Roberta Kevelson
In all disciplines there are specifiable basic concepts, our universes of discourse, which define special areas of inquiry. Semiotics is that ‘science of sciences’ which inquires into all processes of inquiry, and which seeks to discover methods of inquiry. Peirce held that semiotics was to be the… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 17] 1987. xiii, 180 pp.
Charles S. Peirce, phénoménologue et sémioticien
Gérard Deledalle
Le présent ouvrage est la première introduction française à une lecture systématique de Peirce. Par une reconstruction chronologique qui tente à supprimer quelques-uns des pseudo-problèmes que l’édition thématique des écrits de Peirce ont soulevés, cet ouvrage tente à donner une idée aussi exacte… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 14] 1987. ix, 114 pp.
Grundzüge einer Psychologie des Zeichens (1901)
Richard Gätschenberger
Although Richard Gätschenberger can be regarded as one of the important sign theorists in the first third of the 20th century, nothing much about the man and his works is currently known. Long before there was a widespread philosophical interest in language, Gätschenberger had already laid the… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 3] 1987. xv, 135 pp.
Le savoir partagé: Sémiotique et théorie de la connaissance chez Marcel Proust
Jacques Fontanille
Une analyse systématique et détaillée des fines stratégies du secret et du désir de savoir à l’œvre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite à la lumière de la théorie sémiotique, et qui dévoile, à travers le texte de Proust, la présence implicite d’une théorie et d’une… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 4] 1987. 227 pp.
Leibniz. Language, Signs and Thought: A collection of essays
Marcelo Dascal †
Why was Leibniz so deeply interested in signs and language? What role does this interest play in his philosophical system? In the essays here collected, Marcello Dascal attempts to tackle these questions from different angles. They bring to light aspects of Leibniz’s work on these and related… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 10] 1987. xi, 203 pp.
Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975–1985
Compiled by Achim Eschbach and Viktoria Eschbach-Szabó
This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 16] 1986. 948 pp. Bound in 2 vols.
Les Idéologues: Sémiotique, philosophie du langage et linguistique pendant la Révolution française. Proceedings of the Conference, held at Berlin, October 1983
Edited by Winfried Busse and Jürgen Trabant
Le présent volume réunit les contributions d’un colloque sur la pensée sémiotique et linguistique des Idéologues qui s’est tenu à Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983. Ce recueil d’articles fait suite à un fascicule de la revue Histoire Epistémologie Langage qui était consacré au même sujet et dont il… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 12] 1986. xvi, 404 pp.
Charles S. Peirce and the Linguistic Sign
David A. Pharies
This monograph is about the semiotics of lexical signs, and is of particular interest for historical linguists, in particular those interested in etymology. Specialists in linguistic change have long noticed that certain classes of words seem to be in part exempt from regular patterns of sound… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 9] 1985. vi, 118 pp.
Exigences et perspectives de la sémiotique: Recueil d'hommages pour A.J. Greimas. / Aims and Prospects of Semiotics. Essays in honor of A.J. Greimas
Sous la direction de Herman Parret et Hans-George Ruprecht
The two monumental volumes making up this collection of essays hold the names of the world’s most renowned and respected scholars in the field of semiotics, and does more than full justice to the extraordinary career of Algirdas Julien Greimas. Before this mer á boire of some seventy five essays… read more[Not in series, 23] 1985. lxxxv, 1066 pp.
Petites Mythologies de l'œil et de l'esprit: Pour une sémiotique plastique. (Eye on mind; a collection of short mythologies. Towards a theory of plastic semiotics)
Jean-Marie Floch
La sémiotique plastique refuse la confusion du visible et du dicible. Tout ce qui fait sens peut être soumis à l’analyse: la saturation d’un rouge, le parallélisme ou le croisement de deux lignes ou encore le rappel d’un même agencement de formes et de volumes dan un espace bâti. Les sept études… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 1] 1985. 223 pp.
Significs and Language: With an introduction by H.W. Schmitz
H. Walter Schmitz
This is the facsimile 1911 reprint of Victoria Lady Welby’s very last publication Significs and Language. The Articulate form of our Expressive and Interpretative resources. This volume also includes two major essays from the author’s hands, ‘Meaning and Metaphor’ (reprinted from The Monist 3:4,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 5] 1985. (ii)cclxvii, 170 pp.
Sémiotique et philosophie. (Semiotics and Philosophy)
Georges Kalinowski
La réflexion sur le droit et la morale a conduit Georges Kalinowski à la logique et à la philosophie. Au début des années cinquante, il crée – à côté de G.H. von Wright et O. Becker – la logique des normes. Sémiotique et philosphie prolonge ses différentes études de logique, métalogique… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 3] 1985. 293 pp.
'Studies in Logic' by Members of the Johns Hopkins University (1883)
Edited by Charles S. Peirce
This volume contains a facsimile reprint of the 1883 Boston edition of Studies in Logic by Members of the Johns Hopkins University, edited by Charles S. Peirce. In relation to this work there are three mutually related aspects of Peirce’s thought which deserve to be particularly emphasized: the… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 1] 1983. lviii, vii, 203 pp.
History of Semiotics
Edited by Achim Eschbach and Jürgen Trabant
This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence.… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 7] 1983. xvi, 386 pp.
Meaning and Reading: A philosophical essay on language and literature
Michel Meyer
According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:3] 1983. ix, 176 pp.
Semiotics and Pragmatics: An evaluative comparison of conceptual frameworks
Herman Parret
Looking at the ‘semiotic landscape’ – the panorama of constituted semiotics – two traditions seem to have developed separately and without interpenetration. Anglo-Saxon semioticians consider the Peircean framework to provide the adequate conceptual apparatus, whereas so-called ‘Continental’… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:7] 1983. xii, 136 pp.
What is Meaning?: Studies in the Development of Significance (1903)
Victoria Lady Welby
In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term ‘significs’. One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby’s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is,… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 2] 1983. xlii, xxxii, 321 pp.
After Metaphysics: Toward a Grammar of Interaction and Discourse
Harvey B. Sarles
[Studies in Semiotics, 13] 1977. 286 pp.