The appeal of semiotics lies in its apparent ability to establish a common framework for all disciplines, a framework rooted in the understanding of the sign as the universal means of communication. Introducing Semiotic provides a synoptic view of semiotic development, covering for the first time all the previous epochs of Western philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the present. In particular, the book bridges the gap from St. Augustine (5th c.) to John Locke (17th c.). It delineates the foundations of contemporary semiotics and concretely reveals just how integral and fundamental the semiotic point of view really is to Western culture. Because of its clarity of exposition and careful use of primary sources, Introducing Semiotic will be an essential textbook for all courses in semiotics.

Introducing Semiotic: Its History and Doctrine (Advances in Semiotics)

Literature & Fiction

Deely, John

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehensive rationale for the4 linking of semiosis at the levels of culture, society, and nature. As Deely suggests in his preface, the image of the modern semiotic universe is the same as that of astronomy in 1611 as suggested by John Donne: "Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; / All just supply, and all Relation." 
This short, cogent, philosophically oriented book outlines and analyzes the basic concepts of semiotics in a coherent, overall framework.

Basics of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotic)

Basics of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Indiana Univ. Pr

The appeal of semiotics lies in its apparent ability to establish a common framework for all disciplines, a framework rooted in the understanding of the sign as the universal means of communication. Introducing Semiotic provides a synoptic view of semiotic development, covering for the first time all the previous epochs of Western philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the present. In particular, the book bridges the gap from St. Augustine (5th c.) to John Locke (17th c.). It delineates the foundations of contemporary semiotics and concretely reveals just how integral and fundamental the semiotic point of view really is to Western culture. Because of its clarity of exposition and careful use of primary sources, Introducing Semiotic will be an essential textbook for all courses in semiotics.

Introducing Semiotics: Its History and Doctrine (Advances in Semiotics)

New Beginnings: Early Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Thought (Toronto Studies in Semiotics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

This book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in philosophy for the next fifty or so years. By making the theory of signs the dominant theme in "Four Ages of Understanding", John Deely has produced a history of philosophy that is innovative, original, and complete. The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, "Four Ages of Understanding" provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization".
Deely examines the whole movement of past developments in the history of philosophy in relation to the emergence of contemporary semiotics as the defining moment of Postmodernism. Beginning traditionally with the Pre-Socratic thinkers of early Greece, Deely gives an account of the development of the notion of signs and of the general philosophical problems and themes which give that notion a context through four ages: Ancient philosophy, covering initial Greek thought; the Latin age, philosophy in European civilization from Augustine in the 4th century to Poinsot in the 17th; the Modern period, beginning with Descartes and Locke; and the Postmodern period, beginning with Charles Sanders Peirce and continuing to the present. Reading the complete history of philosophy in light of the theory of the sign allows Deely to address the work of thinkers never before included in a general history, and in particular to overcome the gap between Ockham and Descartes which has characterized the standard treatments heretofore. One of the essential features of the book is the way in which it shows how the theme of signs opens a perspective for seeing the Latin Age from its beginning with Augustine to the work of Poinsot as an indigenous development and organic unity under which all the standard themes of ontology and epistemology find a new resolution and place.
A magisterial general history of philosophy, Deely's book provides both a strong background to semiotics and a theoretical unity between philosophy's history and its immediate future. With "Four Ages of Understanding" Deely sets a new agenda for philosophy as a discipline entering the 21st century.

Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Deely contends that the direction modern philosophy took did not make full or even good use of the Latin resources available to the classical modern authors. Part I of his book examines the mainstream Latin context of early modern philosophy at the time of Descartes in order to show that there were important speculative developments of the Latin tradition under way, especially in Iberia, of which Descartes himself had no knowledge. These Latin developments were subsequently screened out of the mainstream development of modern philosophy, but prove to have central relevance for the contemporary postmodern context of discourse analysis and culture studies in general. In particular, Deely shows that more than a century of late Latin development anticipated John Locke's proposal for a philosophical `doctrine of signs' or `semiotic' which would give us a sort of logic and critique of knowledge different from that which the mainstream of modern thought presaged. The Heideggerian `thought of Being' also finds an anticipation in the late latin context of early modern times.
Part II of the book develops the speculative connections between late Latin philosophical developments and postmodern thought. Deely provides a masterful synthesis of late Latin scholasticism and Peircean philosophy, which bears upon the role of signs as experiential reference to human knowledge. It is noteworthy that Deely traces the historical developments surrounding the concept of `cause' in science and philosophy; this provides what may well be the most complete outline for the concept of causality to be found in current literature.

Univ of Toronto Pr

The proceedings of the 8th annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Snowbird, Utah, on October 6-9, 1983, includes 52 contributions in 16 subject areas including: Art and Architecture; Signs Systems in Combination; Peircean Semiotics: Applications and Developments; Neglected Figures in the History of Semiotic Inquiry; Semiotic Approaches to Literature and Criticism: Theory and Practice; Language and Communication; What Semiotics is Not; Semiotics and History; Semiotics and Religious Scriptures; Issues in the Philosophic Foundations of Semiotics; Oral Narrative and Ritual; Symposium on Legal Semiotics; Linguistics; Art, Film, Music; Semiotics and History; Semiotics and Religious Scriptures; Issues in the Philosophic Foundations of Semiotics; Oral Narrative and Ritual; and Symposium on Legal Semiotics. Co-published with the Semiotic Society of America.

Semiotics 1983

Evans,Jonathan

University Press of America

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Semiotics 1986

Evans University of Georgia, Jonathan

Social Sciences

The proceedings of the 1988 annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America include 77 contributions by scholars from diverse disciplines. Sections: I. Semiotic Modeling; II. Psychological Perspectives on Semiotic Models; III. Semiotic Interpretation of Musical Models; IV. Computer Science Models; V. Sessions of the Charles S. Peirce Society; VI. Expansions of Peircean Semiotics; VII. Semiotic Directions in Philosophy; VIII. Semiotics and Religion; IX. Semiotics of Deception; X. Literary Semiotics: Critical Theory; XI. Literary Semiotics: Discourse Analysis; XII. Elias Canetti: Tradition and Transformation; XIII. Semiotics of Poetic Discourse; XIV. Semiotics and Gender Awareness; XV. Camillo and the Illusion of Collective Memory; XVI. Semiotics of Film, Television, Theater; XVII. Semiotics of Art; XVIII. Semiotics and Postmodern Culture; XIX. Semiotic Accounts of Linguistic Concepts; XX. 'Proxemiotics'; XXI. Semiotic Historiography. Co-published with the Semiotic Society of America.

Semiotics 1988

Prewitt, Terry

Haworth, Karen

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Introducing Semiotic: Its History and Doctrine (Advances in Semiotics)

Basics of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotic)

Basics of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics)

Introducing Semiotics: Its History and Doctrine (Advances in Semiotics)

New Beginnings: Early Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Thought (Toronto Studies in Semiotics)

Four Ages of Understanding: The first Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)

New Beginnings: Early Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Thought (Toronto Studies in Semiotics)

Semiotics 1983

Semiotics 1986

Semiotics 1988