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Philosophy of the sign / Josef Simon ; translated by George Heffernan. [electronic resource]
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon, Josef, 1930-
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy Philosophy of the sign
- Standardized Title:
- Philosophie des Zeichens. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics.
- Signs and symbols.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 291 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and semantical commitments. Deconstructing Plato, Frege, and Husserl, he accounts for signs without positing the existence either of meanings which they express or of things to which they refer. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand anything that is not a sign, so that one never gets to meanings without signs or things beyond signs.
- Contents:
- 1. Foreword to the Theme
- 2. Being and Sign since Aristotle
- 3. Delimitation from Semiotics
- 4. Archetype
- Image
- Illusion
- 5. Pointing Sign and Naming Sign
- 6. Preliminary Remark on Method
- 7. Sign and Meaning
- 8. Sign and Concept
- 9. First Excursus to Peirce
- 10. Arbitrariness
- 11. The Proposition
- 12. Propositional Parts
- 13. Problem Solving
- 14. The Same Thing and Different Things
- 15. Interpretation and Reference
- 16. Sign and Sensibility
- 17. First Excursus to Kant and Hegel
- 18. Semantic Positions
- 19. Signs and Things (Sensing, Perceiving, Thinking)
- 20. Negation as a Primitive Sign
- 21. Time I
- 22. Thought Schemata, Space and Time of Consciousness
- 23. Acting
- 24. Sign Convention
- 25. Understanding Others. Translatability
- 26. Signs of Natural Science
- 27. Sign and Time. The Human Being and the State
- 28. The Sign "Being"
- 29. Nietzsche Relieves Ontology of Its Position
- 30. Philosophical Questions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-2008-0
- 0-585-09317-2
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