The Impact on Philosophy of Semiotics
Subtitle: The Quasi-Error of the External World With a Dialogue Between a 'Semiotist' and a 'Realist
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Published: October 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781587313752
Subjects: Semiotics; Philosophy; Epistemology; History & Surveys - Modern; General; Postmodernism; Realism
Description: "This book is a coherent argument about the meaning of the term "postmodern" as it applies to philosophy at the opening of the twenty-first century. The author makes the case that the twentieth-century development of the doctrine of signs, commonly known as semiotics, represents the positive essential thrust giving birth to a postmodern era of philosophy, as clean a break with modern thought as modern thought was with Latin scholasticism in the time of Galileo, Poinsot, and Descartes - but with a difference.

Contrary to what the author dismisses as false claims of postmodernity, the work shows that what is truly postmodern in philosophy both goes beyond modernity and recovers philosophy's past in a renewed understanding of the human condition.

The "problem of the external world," which modern philosophy began by creating, postmodern philosophy begins by revealing as a quasi-error. The book concludes with a philosophical dialogue revealing the inadequacy to the postmodern situation of a simple return to any past form of "realism," and explaining why the postmodern situation calls for a new definition of human being as "the semiotic animal.""--Jacket.