Signifying Nothing

"A delightful analysis. . . . Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, . . . Rotman builds a viable thesis for the semiotics of zero via a thorough examination of Montaigne's Essays, Shakespeare's King Lear, the Kabbalah, and Vermeer's paintings."--Choice

List of contents

Preface - List of Illustrations - Opening - Number, Vision, Money - Emergence of a Meta-Subject - Nothing: Zero - Absence of an Origin - Notes and References - Bibliography - Index

Product details

• Authors: Rotman, B Rotman, B. Rotman, Brian Rotman
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.1987
• EAN: 9780333455517
• ISBN: 978-0-333-45551-7
• Series: Semiotics of Zero; Language, Discourse, Society; Semiotics of Zero
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories