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Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic By Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Paperback. Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce Editor(s): Hoopes, James. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as ""ideas"" but as ""signs,"" external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines. This anthology, the first one-volume work devoted to Peirce's writings on semiotic, provides a much-needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his ... Read more
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as ""ideas"" but as ""signs,"" external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent to methodologies currently being debated in many disciplines. This anthology, the first one-volume work devoted to Peirce's writings on semiotic, provides a much-needed, basic introduction to a complex aspect of his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807843420
SKU
V9780807843420
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About Charles Sanders Peirce
James Hoopes, professor of history at Babson College, is author of Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic.
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