The ground of semiosis: An implied theory of perspectival realism?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Citations of Peirce's works XI
5. Part 1. A general theory of signs: Its possibility and purpose
6. General theories, vague utterances, and fruitful inquiries 3
7. The philosophic significance of Peirce’s theory of signs 19
8. Vagueness, generality, and undeciding otherness 33
9. The Grand Vision 45
10. Part 2. Peirce’s conception of semiosis: Presuppositions and articulations
11. Peirce’s conception of habit 71
12. Information and the metaphysical status of the sign 79
13. Part 3. The components of semiosis
14. The object of semeiotic 93
15. Object and final cause in Peirce’s semeiotic 103
16. Antetension, indexicality, and possible worlds 119
17. The ground of semiosis: An implied theory of perspectival realism? 129
18. Part 4. The classification of signs
19. Peirce’s second classification of signs 143
20. Peirce’s doctrine of symbol 161
21. Symbol, ritual and cognition 173
22. Index and icon revisited 181
23. Part 5. The semiosis of metaphor
24. Peirce and the interaction view of metaphor 193
25. From pure icon to metaphor: Six degrees of iconicity 205
26. On the neglect of Peirce’s views on metaphor in current theories of iconicity 215
27. Peirce’s definition of metaphor and its consequences 229
28. Part 6. Semiotics and aesthetics
29. Aesthetic and artistic semiosis: A Peircean perspective 239
30. Peirce on fiction: Introduction to an author-orientated semiotics 251
31. Literary art: Meaning as a sign of possibility 263
32. Arguments about icons 273
33. Othello and Iago: Twins or opponents? On identity in literary semiotics 283
34. Visual semiotics versus pragmaticism: Peirce and photography 295
35. Music as icon: A critique of twentieth century music semiotic 315
36. Part 7. Philosophy, linguistics and semiotics
37. Sign structure and sign event in Saussure, Hjelmslev, and Peirce 329
38. Relating European structuralist semiotics to American Peircean semeiotic 339
39. Peirce and medieval semiotics 351
40. Peirce and Derrida: From sign to sign 365
41. Part 8. Semiotics and hermeneutics
42. Peirce and hermeneutics 381
43. Hermeneutic aspects in the light of Peirce’s methodology 391
44. A word is not a sign: Hermeneutic semiotics and Peirce’s “Ethics of terminology” 399
45. Peirce’s pragmatic maxim and K.-O. Apel’s idea of a contemplementary hermeneutical science 415
46. Peirce, pragmatism, and interpretation theory 429
47. The construction of a Peircean hermeneutics 441
48. Index 451