Chapter 7. Signs as Footholds: Orientation as an Art of World Abbreviation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Preface XI
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Pre-Orientations 5
6. Chapter 2. First Clues: Occurrences of Orientation 15
7. Chapter 3. The Situation of Orientation: Time Pressure 25
8. Chapter 4. The Selectivity of Orientation: Views 35
9. Chapter 5. The Self-Arranging of Orientations by means of Horizons, Standpoints, and Perspectives 43
10. Chapter 6. Hold in Orientation: Points of Reference, Clues, Leads, and Footholds 55
11. Chapter 7. Signs as Footholds: Orientation as an Art of World Abbreviation 69
12. Chapter 8. The Self-Stabilization and Self-Differentiation of Orientation: Routines, Transposed Continuities, and Orientation Worlds 77
13. Chapter 9. The Self-Reflection of Orientation: Leeways of Thinking 93
14. Chapter 10. Mutual Orientation: Interaction and Communication 111
15. Chapter 11. The Stabilization and Differentiation of Mutual Orientation: Respecting Identities 137
16. Chapter 12. Reckoning with Other Orientations: Economic, Mass Media, Political, and Legal Orientations 155
17. Chapter 13. The Critical Disciplining of Orientation, Its Creative Disorientation, and the Hold on the Eternally Ungraspable: Science, Art, and Religion 183
18. Chapter 14. The Self-Binding of Orientation: Moral Orientation 205
19. Chapter 15. The Self-Reflection of Moral Orientation: Ethical Orientation 235
20. Chapter 16. World Orientation in Globalized Communication 247
21. Chapter 17. Metaphysics in Our Orientation 265
22. Chapter 18. The End of Orientation 275
23. Endnotes 287
24. Index 291