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Semiotics and human nature in postmodernity: A consideration of animal semioticum as the postmodern definition of human being
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Stephen Sparks
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April 21, 2010
Abstract
Any careful consideration of “semiotic animal” (animal semioticum) as the postmodern definition of the human being presupposes an understanding of semiotics, semiosis, postmodernism, and the various points of intersection and overlap among what these terms signify. Thus, prior to considering the historico-conceptual significance of this definition, and evaluating the efficiency thereof, this essay will lay down the foundations whence we may be transported toward a “fourth age of understanding.” Essential to this subsequent intellectual transportation is John Deely's Four ages of understanding, on which I will have ample occasion to draw throughout this essay.
Published Online: 2010-04-21
Published in Print: 2010-April
© 2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York
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