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Charles S. Peirce's
Philosophy of SignsEssays in Comparative SemioticsGérard
Deledalle
Peirce's semiotics and metaphysics compared to the
thought of other leading philosophers.
"This is essential reading
for anyone who wants to find common ground between the best of American semiotics
and better-known European theories. Deledalle has done more than anyone else to
introduce Peirce to European audiences, and now he sends Peirce home with some new
flare." -- Nathan Houser, Director, Peirce Edition Project
Charles
S. Peirce's Philosophy of Signs examines Peirce's philosophy and semiotic thought
from a European perspective, comparing the American's unique views with a wide
variety of work by thinkers from the ancients to moderns. Parts I and II deal with
the philosophical paradigms which are at the root of Peirce's new theory of signs,
pragmatic and social. The main concepts analyzed are those of "sign" and "semiosis"
and their respective trichotomies; formally in the case of "sign," in time in the
case of semiosis. Part III is devoted to comparing Peirce's theory of semiotics as a
form of logic to the work of other philosophers, including Bertrand Russell,
Wittgenstein, Frege, Philodemus, Lady Welby, Saussure, Morris, Jakobson, and
Marshall McLuhan. Part IV compares Peirce's "scientific metaphysics" with European
metaphysics.
Gérard Deledalle holds the Doctorate in Philosophy
from the Sorbonne. A research scholar at Columbia University and Attaché at the
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, he has also been Professor of
Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department of the universities of Tunis,
Perpignan, and Libreville. In 1990 he received the Herbert W. Schneider Award "for
distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of American
philosophy. In 2001, he was appointed vice-president of the Charles S. Peirce
Society.
Contents
Introduction -- Peirce
Compared: Directions for Use
Part I -- Semeiotic as
PhilosophyPeirce's New Philosophical ParadigmsPeirce's Philosophy of
SemeioticPeirce's First Pragmatic Papers (1877-1878)The Postscriptum of
1893
Part II -- Semeiotic as SemioticsSign: Semiosis and
Representamen -- Semiosis and TimeSign: The Concept and Its Use -- Reading as
Translation
Part III -- Comparative SemioticsSemiotics and Logic:
A Reply to Jerzy PelcSemeiotic and Greek Logic: Peirce and PhilodemusSemeiotic and
Significs: Peirce and Lady WelbySemeiotic and Semiology: Peirce and
SaussureSemeiotic and Semiotics: Peirce and MorrisSemeiotic and Linguistics: Peirce
and JakobsonSemeiotic and Communication: Peirce and McLuhanSemeiotic and
Epistemology: Peirce, Frege, and Wittgenstein
Part IV --
Comparative MetaphysicsGnoseology -- Perceiving and Knowing: Peirce, Wittgenstein,
and GestalttheorieOntology -- Transcendentals "of" or "without" Being: Peirce versus
Aristotle and Thomas AquinasCosmology -- Chaos and Chance within Order and
Continuity: Peirce between Plato and DarwinTheology -- The Reality of God: Peirce's
Triune God and the Church's TrinityConclusion -- Peirce: A Lateral View
