Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes - Brossura

Merrell, Floyd

 
9780802071422: Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0802071422 ISBN 13: 9780802071422
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1996

Sinossi

This is the third volume in Floyd Merrell's trilogy on semiotics focusing on Peirce's categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In this book the author argues that there are passageways linking the social sciences with the physical sciences, and signs with life processes. This is not a study of the semiotics of life, but rather of semiosis as a living process. Merrell attempts to articulate the links between thought that is rooted in that which can be quantified and thought that resists quantification, namely that of the consciousness. As he writes in his preface, he is intent on `fusing the customary distinctions between life and non-life, mind and matter, self and other, appearance (fiction) and "reality," ... to reveal the everything that is is a sign.' In order to accomplish this goal, Peirce's terciary concept of the sign is crucial.

Merrell begins by asking `What are signs that they may take on life-like processes, and what is life that it may know the sign processes that brought it - themselves - into existence?' In order to answer this question he examines semiotic theory, philosophical discourse, the life sciences, the mathematical sciences, and literary theory. He offers an original reading of Peirce's thought along with that of Prigogine and of many others. Following Sebeok, Merrell reminds us that `any and all investigation of nature and of the nature of signs and life must ultimately be semiotic in nature.'

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Informazioni sugli autori

Floyd Merrell is a Professor of Theory, Semiotics, Culture, and Latin American Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Purdue University.

Floyd Merrell is a Professor of Theory, Semiotics, Culture, and Latin American Literature in the Department of Foreign Language and Literature at Purdue University.

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Editore
Univ of Toronto Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0802071422
ISBN 13 
9780802071422
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
356
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0802007783 ISBN 13:  9780802007780
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1996
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