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Book 2008.0

Wholeness and its remainders

Daniele Monticelli

Edition: 1 edition

General Semiotics Tartu University Press 9789949119349 Available

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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics

Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.

Identifier: 9789949119349

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Book 2007.0

Przestrzeń i muzyka

Leszek Polony

Music Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie 9788387182731 Available

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Annotation: This essay is the third in a series of works devoted to musical hermeneutics. In the first, I dealt with the basic concepts of music ontology: movement, play, being and time, drawing inspiration from the hermeneutical philosophy of Schleiermacher, Diltey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Then, inspired by the thought of Paul Ricoeur, I analysed the conceptual category of musical narrative. Even then, in these considerations, the category of space appeared many times, inseparable from human experience in its temporal and spatial structure and, as it turns out, inextricably linked to the experience of music. In the reception of music, we are undoubtedly given a certain "temporal" sound-musical space.

Identifier: 9788387182731

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Book 2000.0

The body in language

Horst Ruthof

General Semiotics Cassell 0304338052 Available

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Annotation: Language is not merely verbal. Nonverbal signs and interpretations not only contribute to language, but in fact compose the structure of language itself. Horst Ruthrof delves into the nonverbal facets of language, such as olfactory, gustatory, aural, visual and tactile readings. Proposing reclamation of the body as an integral part of language, this book argues against structural linguistics and post-Saussurean theories. To support his standpoint, Ruthrof draws on the writings of Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Helen Keller, and on recent research in cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive rhetoric.

Identifier: 0304338052

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Book 1997.0

The idea of a living spirit

Paul Colilli

General Semiotics University of Toronto Press 0802041000 Available

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Other title information: poetic logic as a contemporary theory

Annotation: In this book, Paul Colilli brings a unifying perspective to the time-worn debate between rationalists and empiricists by demonstrating that ratio-logical thinking is based on, not separate from, poetico-logical thinking. Colilli sets out his theory of poetic logic through an analysis of works by a range of thinkers and writers that include Paolo Valesio, Franco Rella, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Carl Jung, Giambattista Vico, and Giordano Bruno.

Identifier: 0802041000

Status: Available

Journal Article 1996

Contents/Sommaire Volume 110 (1996)

In: Semiotica 1996, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.110.3-4.391

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.110.3-4.391

Wholeness and its remainders

Przestrzeń i muzyka

The body in language

The idea of a living spirit

Contents/Sommaire Volume 110 (1996)

Diagraming discourse structures: Illocution, interaction, or text?

Étude sémiologique des accessoires dans trois pièces de Beckett: En attendant Godot, Fin de partie, Oh les beaux jours

Heidegger says Being, and representation is dead

Metaphor, metonymy, and cross-cultural translation

Review article

Sonstiges

Voix, identités, responsabilités: le rôle des scenarios illocutoires dans l’acte de lire

Reconsidering psycholinguistics' project

Heidegger’s Being and Time: A Reading for Readers

... the essential being of language cannot be anything linguistic — Martin Heidegger

Autobiographical textuality: The case of Thoreau’s Walden

C. S. Peirce’s phaneroscopy and semiotics

Cinders

Edgework: Frame and boundary in the phenomenology of narrative communication

Experience, signification, and reality: The boundaries of cultural semiotics

Human nature: Of communication, of structuralism, of semiotics

Introduction: Two philosophies of communication

On the cognitive underpinnings of language

Peirce and Hjelmslev: Man-as-sign/man-as-language

Phenomenology and deconstructive strategy

Semiotic phenomenology in Plato’s Sophist

Sonstiges

The concretization of meaning: Roman Ingarden

The phenomenology of verbal communication: A classical Indian view

Toward inhabited space: The semiotic structure of camera movement in the cinema

Vers la phénoménologie sémiotique