“Whereof One Cannot Theorize, Thereof One Must Narrate”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Contents IX
4. Umberto Eco, la gaia scienza 1
5. Reality Check. The Mass Mediatisation of Perception 5
6. From Mirrors to Deixis – Subjectivity, Biplanarity, and the Sign 11
7. Eco’s Definition of Semiotics as the Discipline of Lying 19
8. Encyclopaedia, Cultural Reflection and Aesthetic Code Changing 26
9. Culture and Invention – Umberto Eco and the Aesthetics of Luigi Pareyson 34
10. On the Limits of Semiotics, or the Thresholds of/in Knowing 41
11. Looking at Culture Through Ideological Discourse 48
12. Eco’s Face Drawing and the Continuum of Emoticon Articulation 57
13. Semiotics Between Lie and Truth 71
14. Umberto Eco, Semiotics and Philosophy of Language 81
15. Paths – On the Formation of the Subject in a Theory of Semiotics 93
16. Umberto Eco and Metaphor 104
17. Umberto Eco: Structuralist and Poststructuralist at Once 111
18. Eco and the Google Search Innovations 119
19. Textual Ideological Structures and Reader Competence in the Interpretative Semiotics of Umberto Eco 127
20. Exploring the Textual Woods: Umberto Eco’s Growing Concept of Text 134
21. The Sememe as a Virtual Text 143
22. Spectator in Fabula: A Model of the Interpretative Cooperation in Visual Texts 149
23. A Novel Form – Tempting Truths and Possible Worlds in The Name Of The Rose 158
24. “Whereof One Cannot Theorize, Thereof One Must Narrate” 165
25. Semiotics, Semiology, Sematology 174
26. Conceptual Metaphors for Eco’s Encyclopedic ‘Epistemological Metaphors’ 181
27. Code Semiotics, Interpretation Semiotics and Philosophy of Language in Umberto Eco 196
28. Colour as Cultural Unit. Challenges and Developments 206
29. Umberto Eco and Semiotic Creativity 214
30. Fundamentalism, Anomie, Conspiracy: Umberto Eco’s Semiotics Against Interpretive Irrationality 221
31. Narrating Theory 230
32. Fiction and Reality in Eco’s Words 236
33. On Negative Realism 243
34. Umberto Eco and Juri M. Lotman on Communication and Cognition 248
35. Being and the Limits of Interpretation: The Role of Realism in Umberto Eco’s Interpretative System 258
36. Semiotics and ‘Being’ – On Umberto Eco’s Negative Realism 267
37. Umberto Eco’s “Negative Realism” and its Glossematic Foundations 276
38. Umberto Eco – Aesthetics, Semiotics, Semiotics of the Arts 287
39. Translating Equivalent Effect: Or Re-Creating the Intentio Operis 294
40. The Mysterious Flame of Umberto Eco 301
41. The Outsourcing of Memory 309
42. The Semiotic Library 314
43. References 320
44. Index 338