The Mediating Role of ‘Esthetics’ in Charles S. Peirce's Semiotics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. I Peirce on Ethics
6. Rendering the World more Reasonable 3
7. Peirce and Royce on Person 17
8. C.S. Peirce and Philosophical Ethics 27
9. A Peircean Account of Moral Judgments 39
10. What Logic Can Learn from Ethics 49
11. Collaboration and Casuistry 61
12. Peircean Triads in the Work of J. Lacan 73
13. II Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of Philosophical Thought
14. The Primacy of the Aesthetic in Peirce, and Classic American Philosophy 85
15. Art and Interpretation 99
16. Peirce and Husserl 113
17. Peirce, Saussure and Jakobson's Aesthetic Function 123
18. Some Reflections on Peirce's Aesthetics from a Structuralist Point of View 143
19. III Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of his Thought
20. The Place of Peirce's ‘Esthetic’ in his Thought and in the Tradition of Aesthetics 155
21. Peircean Fragments on the Aesthetic Experience 179
22. Aesthetic Experience in Charles S. Peirce 191
23. The Mediating Role of ‘Esthetics’ in Charles S. Peirce's Semiotics 215
24. The Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics of Geometrical Construction 229
25. IV Peirce's Aesthetics and its Applications
26. Objects, Signs, and Works of Art 245
27. Representation and Intersemiosis 255
28. Peirce and Literary Studies with Special Emphasis on the Theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle 277
29. Scientific Fiction and Literary Fiction 301
30. ‘Origin’ in the Peircean Interpretation of a Painting 313
31. Can Peirce be Applied to Music? 335
32. A Peircean Perspective on the Growth of Markedness and Musical Meaning 349
33. References 359
34. Index of Names 373
35. Index of Subjects 377