Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth 3
5. 2 Metaphor as Knowledge 95
6. 3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis 116
7. 4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies) 171
8. 5 Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages 223
9. 6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana 250
10. 7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah 286
11. 8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts 309
12. 9 Toward a History of Denotation 353
13. 10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism 385
14. 11 The Language of the Austral Land 424
15. 12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre 440
16. 13 On the Silence of Kant 457
17. 14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) 488
18. 15 The Threshold and the Infinite 508
19. 16 The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic 531
20. 17 Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day 548
21. 18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation 564
22. References 587
23. Index 613