Signs grow : semiosis and life processes /
This is the third volume in Floyd Merrell's trilogy on semiotics focusing on Peirce's categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In this book the author argues that there are passageways linking the social sciences with the physical sciences, and signs with life processes. This is...
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Toronto studies in semiotics.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Of Life and Signs. 1. Self-referring Signs. 2. A Vertiginous Whorl. 3. Signs of Life. 4. The Merry-go-round of Life. 5. Order from Chaos: The Merry-go-round of Semiosis. 6. The Turn of the Scew. 7. The Life of Signs
- Ch. 2. As Ongoing Semiosis. 1. Vicious or Virtuous Circle? 2. The Birth of Irreversibility. 3. Emergent Signs. 4. Semiosis and Autopoiesis. 5. Congealed Mind and Sublimated Matter. 6. A One-way Street during Rush Hour
- Ch. 3. The Time of the Mind-Sign. 1. What Is 'Real'? 2. Signs That Sign Themselves. 3. Facts, Figments, Fantasies. 4. Time En Bloc? 5. The 'Imaginary' and the 'Real' from a Different Glance. 6. 'Dead Time' and Static Mind? 7. Or Beyond Reversibility? 8. And Somehow All There in One Fell Swoop?
- Ch. 4. A Pluralist Semiotic Universe. 1. Time in All Directions Simultaneously? 2. The Eye ('I') Can't See Itself (as Its Own Icon). 3. Is 'Mind-stuff' Restless or Merely Listless? 4. Then What Is Semiotically 'Out There'?
