The Primacy of Semiosis : an Ontology of Relations.

The Primacy of Semiosis : an Ontology of Relations.

The Primacy of Semiosis provides a semiotic that subverts the opposition between realism and idealism; one in which what have been called 'nature' and 'culture' interpenetrate in an expanding collective of human and non-human.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bains, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Series:Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
Subjects:
Semiotics.
Ontology.
ontology (metaphysics)
Ontology
Semiotics
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Drama of Relation and Its Characters; 1 An Even Briefer History of Relations; Terminology; Discussion in and after the Latin West; 2 Deleuze and External (or Ontological) Relations; The Circle of the Proposition; The Complex Theme of the Proposition; 3 Poinsot and Deely on Relations and Signs; Objective Being; The Doctrine of 'Species'; Ideas; Formal Signs; Scotist and Thomist Accounts; Objective Being as Umwelt; 4 Umwelten; Jakob von Uexkūll and Umwelten; The Tick as an Interpreter
  • the Functional Cycle.
  • Deleuze and Guattari's AppropriationContemporary Value and Semiotic Use; Species-Specific Objective Worlds; Heideggerean Umwelten; The Transformation of Umwelt into Lebenswelt; 5 Autopoiesis and Languaging; Background and Context; Cognitive Systems; Living Systems; Languaging; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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