Peirce and the mark of the gryphon / Roberta Kevelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kevelson, Roberta.

Series:

Semaphores and signs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.

Peirce, Charles S.

Physical Description:

xvi, 239 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

Peirce and the Mark of the Gryphon draws from the unpublished manuscripts of American semiotician Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) to explore how he conceived of the evolution of thought, from instinct and imagination, as in myth, to ideas that are exchangeable units of meaning. This illuminating volume further examines Peirce's cosmology as open-ended, nonfinite, and self-organizing. Kevelson has undertaken the first comprehensive study of Peircean process--from imagination/idea to idea as thought.

Contents:

Introduction: Why a Gryphon? The Life and Work of Roberta Kevelson William Pencak xi

Part I Peirce's Saltus: No Leap of Faith

1. The Garden Path 3

2. Myth as Firstness 13

3. Interpreting Gardens 25

4. Classification and Enclosure 35

5. Design 45

Part II To Discover Forms of Signs

6. Peirce's Mathematical Thinking: Exploring Hypotheses and Other Possibilities 57

7. Complex Ideas and How They Grow 69

8. Cliches and Interpretants 81

Part III Taking the Fork in the Road

9. On the Town: The Evolving Square 95

10. On the Town Again: From Plot to Market 107

Part IV Of "Hard Words" and "Dark Spots"

11. The Changing Landscape of "Rights": Hybrids and Relations 119

12. Dissent and the Anarchic in Legal Counterculture 131

13. Creative Crime 143

14. Real Property's Rights 153

Part V The Humpty-Dumpty Syndrome

15. The Varieties of Common Sense 169

16. Experiment, Simulation, and the Continuum Idea 181

17. Legacy from the Enlightenment 191

18. Peirce and Romance 203

19. Toward a Peircean Poetics 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0312176945

OCLC:

41096129