: John Deely
: Purely Objective Reality
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9781934078099
: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 168.70
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 217
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This volume solves the problem of the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. Foremost American philosopher, John Deely, offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality' will be instrumental in the survival – or destruction– of planet Earth.



John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA.
Frontmatter2
Contents10
Terminological Prenote14
Praeludium Primum, or The Key Dilemma19
Preamble on Objectivity20
Chapter 1. The Problem of Objectivity25
Chapter 2. Root of the Semiotic Resolution of the Problem of Objectivity28
Chapter 3. Objectivity as a Branch on the Tree of Relations49
Chapter 4. The FirstAppearance of Objectivity in Its Difference from Things65
Chapter 5. The Source in Subjectivity of Relations of Apprehension80
Chapter 6. The Sign –Arbitrariness or Historicity?95
Chapter 7. The Social Construction of Reality121
Chapter 8. What Difference Does It MakeWhat a Sign Is?134
Chapter 9. Why Intersubjectivity Is Not Enough154
Chapter 10. TheAmazing History of Sign176
Backmatter196