Peirce's Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective on Human Subjectivity

Colapietro, M., Vincent; Vincent M. Colapietro

ISBN 10: 0887068839 / ISBN 13: 9780887068836

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1989

About this Item

141 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Slight damage to spine. Book/ pages warped.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peirce's Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective on Human Subjectivity
• Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany, NY
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887068839
• ISBN 13: 9780887068836
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
  • Social Studies & Sciences, Sociology, Social Work
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

Based on a careful study of his unpublished manuscripts as well as his published work, this book explores Peirce's general theory of signs and the way in which Peirce himself used this theory to understand subjectivity. Peirce's views are presented, not only in reference to important historical (James, Saussure) and contemporary (Eco, Kristeva) figures, but also in reference to some of the central controversies regarding signs. Colapietro adopts as a strategy of interpretation Peirce's own view that ideas become clarified only in the course of debate.

About the Author

Vincent M. Colapietro is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary's College. He twice received the Douglas Greenlee Award for papers accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, and Chapter Five of this book received the first Charles Sanders Peirce Award from the Peirce Society. He has also received the John William Miller Essay Prize.