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Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
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A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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Annotation: This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science speciality evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological-sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chinese biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.
Identifier: 9783319180922
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Cykl sceniczny "Licht" Karlheinza Stockhausena
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Other title information: muzyczny teatr świata
Annotation: Analysing the subject matter and content of Licht, as well as its message and the means of expression employed, it is difficult not to discern the unification, within a single work, of what might appear to be contrasting musical genres and kinds of theatre (mystery play, expressionist drama, happening).
Identifier: 9788387182939
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The Parallax View
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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
Identifier: 9780262240512
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The Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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Semiotics of Light
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Other title information: An integrative approach to human archetypal roots
Annotation: Inside the pages of this book we have holographically integrated the human world genesis by "WORLD-LIGHT". It is the generative sign by which the colors were spread throughout the world, it is the sign of the creative "image and alikeness" by which the human being was granted the gift-power to love both his / her fellow beings, cosmos and God. "LIGHT OF LIGHT", the metaphysics of physics...
Identifier: 9738518059
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Systems of musical sense
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- essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music
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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.
Identifier: 9525431061
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New science
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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Identifier: 0140435697
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Writing and Difference
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Annotation: Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics.
Identifier: 0415255837
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Chance, Love, and Logic
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Other title information: Philosophical Essays
Notes: edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen with an essay by John Deely. Reprint from the original 1923 edition by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. New York.
Annotation: Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles S. Peirce that are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.
Identifier: 0803287518
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A love story retold: Moral order and intergenerational negotiations
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.83
Dynamic features of polite interaction
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.111
Greimas’s semiotic square and Greek and Roman astrology
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.1
Hungarian Piros and Vörös: Color from points of view
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.67
Mapping a network of semiotic systems: The Romanian Love Charms Database
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.41
Physics and biosemiotics
In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 2
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Quelle heure est-il, Monsieur Ricoeur? A semiotic narratology of duration, term, tempo, and rec(oe)urrence, tol(le)d from the criticism of Paul Ricoeur
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.21
Review article
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.151
The classification of Peirce’s interpretants
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.31
The literary communication pact: A semiotic approach
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.114.1-2.131
Ecstatic Naturalism
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- Signs of the world
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Annotation: Semiotic theory, which has restricted its focus largely to human forms of signification, is transformed by Robert S. Corrington into a semiotics of nature itself. Corrington situates the divide between "nature naturing" and "nature natured" within the context of classical American pragmaticism and postmodern psychoanalysis. At the heart of this new metaphysics is an insistence that all signs participate in larger orders of meaning that are natural and religious. Meanings embodied in nature point beyond nature to the mystery inherent in positioned codes and signs
Identifier: 0253314410
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Compte rendu
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.341
Distant genetic relationship and Edward Sapir
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.273
Guest editorial. Present image, past text, post word: Educating the late modern citizen
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.195
Ideal speech situation vs. particular pragmatics of situation: The microcosm of psychoanalytic discourse
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.199
La sémiotique des gestes centrés sur le corps et leurs implications langagières dans le site medical
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.319
Professor Tarski, ‘The Liar’, and the true
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.301
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.3-4.u
Remembered passion: The implicate order in perception, language, and physics
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.87.1-2.59
Signs Becoming Signs
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Other title information: Our Perfusive, Persuasive Universe
Notes: 1st book in trilogy "Signs Becoming Signs)
Annotation: Signs Becoming Signs evinces a broad transdisciplinary perspective based on the thinking of Charles Sanders Peirce. The universe as a perfusion of signs incessantly spilling forth into other signs- evolutionary, processual, ongoing semiosis- resists precise conceptualization. As within St. Augustine's time, we might somehow fleetingly experience it, sense it, almost know it, but upon our attempting to say it, it will already have sublimated into unknowing: thus the breach between our 'semiotically real' world and the 'real', between our incorrigible ideals and our real capacities.
Identifier: 0253337461
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THE GOBLIN BEE: ANXIETY IN RELATION TO POETRY, PHYSICS, AND SEMIOTICS
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1986, Volume 4, Issue 3/4
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A Cape Breton System of personal names: Pragmatic and semantic change
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.55
Cinema and semiosis
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.21
Commemorative essay. Roman Jakobson
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.1
Ecriture, peinture: Des calligrammes aux pictogrammes
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.123
La structure de la description réaliste dans la littérature européenne
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 95-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.95
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.199
Review article
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.137
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.u
What became of Eliza Doolittle? A case study of the sign in fiction
In: Semiotica 1983, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1983.44.1-2.75
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
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Notes: Original in German Phanomenologie des Geistes in 1952
Identifier: 0198245300
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Linguistic Form and Meaning
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.123
Linguistics and Semiotics
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.101
On the Spatial and Cultural Characteristics of Courtly Romance
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.1
Position and Velocity and Wave and Corpuscle: On the Semiotic Side of Physics
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.111
Quatre contes sur l'Ours
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.49
Some Preliminary Hypotheses on the Semiotic Microcosm of Gottfried's Tristan
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.39
Speech and Interaction in Sound-only Communication Channels
In: Semiotica 1977, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1977.20.1-2.81