Primacy of Semiosis - An Ontology of Relations

Informationen zum Autor Paul Bains is an independent scholar living in New Zealand. He has translated works by Félix Guattari (Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm) and Isabelle Stengers (Power and Invention: Situating Science). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 FormalSigns Scotist and Thomist Accounts Objective Being as Umwelt 4 Umwelten Jakob von Uexküll and Umwelten The Tick as an Interpreter – the Functional Cycle Deleuze and Guattari’s Appropriation Contemporary 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

Product details

• Authors: Paul Bains
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781442626980
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-2698-0
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication; Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works