Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Section 1: Semiotics in the world and academia
5. What the humanities are for – a semiotic perspective 3
6. Semioethics as a vocation of semiotics. In the wake of Welby, Morris, Sebeok, Rossi- Landi 25
7. “General semiotics” as the all-round interdisciplinary organizer – general semiotics (GS) vs. philosophical fundamentalism 45
8. Section 2: Semiotics, experimental science and maths
9. Semiotics as a metalanguage for the sciences 61
10. Mastering phenomenological semiotics with Husserl and Peirce 83
11. Section 3: Society, text and social semiotics
12. Farewell to representation: text and society 105
13. Social semiotics: Towards a sociologically grounded semiotics 121
14. Section 4: Semiotics and media
15. What relationship to time do the media promise us? 149
16. Semiotics and interstitial mediatizations 169
17. Section 5: Semiotics for moral questions
18. Spaces of memory and trauma: a cultural semiotic perspective 185
19. Media coverage of the voices of Colombia’s victims of dispossession 205
20. Section 6: Questioning the logic of semiotics
21. Sense beyond communication 225
22. Semiotic paradoxes: Antinomies and ironies in a transmodern world 239
23. Section 7: Manifestoes for semiotics
24. Semiosis and human understanding 257
25. Culture and transcendence – the concept of transcendence through the ages 293
26. Section 8: Masters on past masters
27. From Peirce’s pragmatic maxim to Wittgenstein’s language-games 327
28. Semiotics as a critical discourse: Roland Barthes’ Mythologies 353
29. Ricoeur, a disciple of Greimas? A case of paradoxical maïeutic 363
30. Index 377