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The Dialectical Biologist
Richard Levins | Richard Lewontin
Biology / Biosemiotics Harvard University Press 067420283X Available
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Annotation: Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic. These essays stress the concepts of continual change and codetermination between organism and environment, part and whole, structure and process, science and politics. Throughout, this book questions our accepted definitions and biases, showing the self-reflective nature of scientific activity within society.
Identifier: 067420283X
Status: Available
’Seeing a stranger’: Does eye-contact reflect intimacy?
JANET SWAIN; GEOFFREY M. STEPHENSON; MICHAEL E. DEWEY
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.107
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.107
Du sens au tragique: une vue sémiotique de Jusqu’à nouvel avis, comédie de Guillaume Oyono-Mbia
PETER IGBONEKWU OKEH
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.215
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Life, language, and society
H. HARTMAN
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.89
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Person-descriptions in plea bargaining
DOUGLAS W. MAYNARD
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.195
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Publications received
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.325
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.325
Review article
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.247
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Semantic deficiencies in the narratives of mildly retarded speakers
KEITH T. KERNAN; SHARON SABSAY
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.169
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Stories and story-time in an infant classroom: Some features of language in social interaction
E. C. CUFF; D. E. HUSTLER
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.119
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The display of recipiency: An instance of a sequential relationship in speech and body movement
CHRISTIAN C. HEATH
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.42.2-4.147
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A Semiotic Approach to the Polysemy of the Symbol nāga in Indian Mythology
ELENA SEMEKA-PANKRATOV
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.237
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.237
Ethnicity, Modernity, and Theory of Culture Texts
IRENE PORTIS WINNER
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.103
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.103
Ethnosemiotics
DEAN MacCANNELL
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.149
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.149
Feasting and Tourism: A Comparison
E. G. SCHWIMMER
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.221
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.221
Introductory Note
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
- Pages
- 1-2
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.1
Nature’s Way? Visual Images of Childhood in American Culture
JEAN UMIKER-SEBEOK
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.173
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.173
Prefigurements of Art
THOMAS A. SEBEOK
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.3
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.3
Saussure/Peirce à propos Language, Society and Culture
JAMES A. BOON
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.83
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Some Fundamental Concepts Leading to a Semiotics of Culture: An Historical Overview
THOMAS G. WINNER
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.75
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.75
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1979, Issue 2024-01-03 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.u
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1979.27.1-3.u
Ideology and Insanity
Thomas S. Szasz
- Dependent title
- Essays on the psychiatric dehumanization of man
Social Pelican Books 0140218262 Available
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Annotation: In the social and political conflicts that take place in any society, control of the weak by the strong is justified by the rhetoric appropriate to the prevailing ideology. The 20th century’s credo is Mental Health; and in its name those who deviate from accepted social norms are often victimized and dehumanized. The author of these fourteen essays is a psychoanalyst and teacher. Here, Dr. Thomas Szasz shows how, by encouraging us to wage war on the false front of mental illness, psychiatry too often serves as a convenient way of avoiding confrontations with moral conflicts and societal problems. And, he warns us, if we persist in defining the vicissitudes of life as mental illnesses, and psychiatric interventions as medical treatments, we court the hazards of political tyranny disguised as psychiatric therapy.
Identifier: 0140218262
Status: Available
Russian Formalism
Victor Erlich
- Dependent title
- History-Doctrine
- Edition
- 4 edition
General Semiotics Mouton Publishers 9027904502 Available
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Annotation: More elaborately and self-consciously than anywhere in the West, Russian criticism has developed three major schools. One of these looks for the essence of literature in its philosophical and religious ideas: writers like Berdjaev, mainly interested in an interpretation of Dostoevskij, see literature as a way of knowing the absolute. A second school is the social: literature is not only a mirror of society but an incitement to social thought and action. In its Marxist version, social criticism has become the official Soviet creed and is thus felt today as peculiarly representative of Russian criticism. But a third school, that of Formalism, is so far much less known and much less accessible in the West. It arose around 1914 and was suppressed around 1930. Russian Formalism keeps the work of art itself in the center of attention: it sharply emphasizes the difference between literature and life, it rejects the usual biographical, psychological, and sociological explanations of literature.
Identifier: 9027904502
Status: Available