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Philosophy of the Sign
Contributor(s): Simon, Josef (Author), Heffernan, George (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0791424537     ISBN-13: 9780791424537
Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1995
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - General
Dewey: 149.94
LCCN: 94-22420
Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Physical Information: (1.24 lbs) 291 pages
 
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In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and semantical commitments. Deconstructing Plato, Frege, and Husserl, he accounts for signs without positing the existence either of meanings which they express or of things to which they refer. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand anything that is not a sign, so that one never gets to meanings without signs or things beyond signs.

This confinement of signers and signees to a network of signitive relationships with no possibility of escape to a metasignitive "reality" characterizes Simon's philosophy of the sign. He draws on an extraordinarily wide range of sources, from Classical to contemporary, from modern to postmodern, from Anglo-American analytic to Continental European, for example, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Hamann, Herder, Kant, von Humboldt, Hegel, Nietzsche, Peirce, Frege, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Quine. A bonus is that this book provides insight into major developments in the contemporary German-speaking realm.
 
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