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Emptiness and desire in the first rule of logic
Jamin Pelkey
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 467-490
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.04
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.04
Passions of Our Time
Julia Kristeva
Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available
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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks
Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”
Identifier: 9780231171441
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Starred cosmopolitanism: Celebrity chefs, documentaries, and the circulation of global desire
Fabio Parasecoli
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 211
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- 315-339
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0098
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0098
Zoosemiotics
Dario Martinelli
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- 1 edition
Biology / Biosemiotics International Semiotics Institute 9789525431162 Available
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Other title information: proposals for a handbook
Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.
Identifier: 9789525431162
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The semiotics of sexuality: The choice becomes the association of habits becomes the desire becomes the need
Stephen Jarosek
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 73-136
Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.04
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.04
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Literature Abacus 9780349121086 Available
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Annotation: A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human – and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Identifier: 9780349121086
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The brothel as the space of “erotic” desire?
Vana Tentokali, G. Katsavounidou, P. Kourti, G. Melissourgos
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1
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- 569-572
Semiotics Around the World
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Charles Sanders Peirce, historian and semiotician
WILLIAM PENCAK
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.311
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Emotional expression in a manuscript of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica: British Library Cotton Tiberius A XIV
EDWIN N. GORSUCH
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.227
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Ethnic semiosis in American popular culture, 1880-1910
JAMES H. DORMON
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.197
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Genocide and historical desire
GREGORY F. GOEKJIAN
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.211
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History and semiotics in the 1990s
BROOKE WILLIAMS
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.385
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Introduction
Brooke Williams; William Pencak
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.193
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Nishi Amane’s efforts to translate Western knowledge: Sound, written character, and meaning
DOUGLAS HOWLAND
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.283
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Peirce and Triadomania
C. W. Spinks
General Semiotics Mouton de Gruyter 3110126338 Available
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Other title information: A Walk in the Semiotic Wilderness
Annotation: This study is an outgrowth of a deep respect for Peirce's thinking and a desire to understand him as fully as a non-polymath can. It seeks to explore Peirce's Semeiotic, as he called it, and to articulate how deeply his tri-relative logic pervades his thinking.
Identifier: 3110126338
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Semiotic and American history
JAMES HOOPES
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.251
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.u
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The historian in the labyrinth of signs: Reconstructing cultures and reading texts in the practice of intellectual history
JOHN E. TOEWS
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 351-384
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.351
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Witchcraft at Salem: (Mis)representing the subject
ROSS J. PUDALOFF
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.83.3-4.333
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Le savoir partagé
Jacques Fontanille
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- 1 edition
Literature Hadès-Benjamins 2905572043 Available
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Other title information: sémiotique et théorie de la connaissance chez Marcel Proust
Annotation: Une analyse systématique et détailée des fines stratégies du secret et du désir de savoir à l'œvre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite à la lumière de la théorie sémiotique, et qui déviole, à travers le texte de Proust, la présence implicite d'une thérie et d'une esthéque de la connaisance. La prespective adoptée, que conduit à récuser toute coupure radicale entre discours litéraire et discours scientifique, apport une contribution originale à la réflexion sure les problèmes généraux de l'épistémologie des discours. A systematic and detailed analysis of the fine strategies of secrecy and the desire to know at work between the protagonists of In Search of Lost Time, conducted in the light of semiotic theory, and which unmasks, through Proust's text, the implicit presence of a theory and an aesthetic of knowledge. The perspective adopted, which leads to rejecting any radical break between literary and scientific discourse, makes an original contribution to the reflection on the general problems of the epistemology of discourses. (translated with Google translate)
Identifier: 2905572043
Status: Available
Julia Kristeva: Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
Patrick Imbert
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1984, Volume 2, Issue 4
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- 169-171
The American Journal of Semiotics
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What is Meaning?
Victoria Lady Welby
General Semiotics John Benjamins Publishing company 9027232725 Available
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Other title information: Studies in the Development of Signifcance
Notes: Reprint of the edition London, 1903, with an Introductory essay by Gerrit Mannoury and a Preface by Achim Eschach.
Annotation: In "What is Meaning" (1903) the author elaborates on the fundamental tenets of her theory of sign, to which she gave the overall term significs . One of the main obstacles to an adequate theory of meaning, in Lady Welby s opinion, is the unfounded assumption of fixed sign meaning. "There is, strictly speaking, no such thing as the Sense of a word, but only the sense in which it is used the circumstances, state of mind, reference, universe of discourse belonging to it. The Meaning of a word is the intent which it is desired to convey the intention of the user. The Significance is always manifold, and intensifies its sense as well as its meaning, by expressing its importance, its appeal to us, its moment for us, its emotional force, its ideal value, its moral aspect, its universal or at least social range." This facsimile of the 1903 edition of "What is Meaning" is accompanied by an essay on "Significs as a Fundamental Science" by Achim Eschbach, and "A Concise History of Significs" by G. Mannoury.
Identifier: 9027232725
Status: Available