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1 online resource (xxxiii, 1019 pages) : illustrations |
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Toronto studies in semiotics |
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Toronto studies in semiotics.
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880-01 Preface: the boundary of time -- 1. Society and civilization: the prelude to philosophy -- 2. Philosophy as physics -- 3. The Golden Age: philosophy expands its horizon -- 4. The final Greek centuries and the overlap of Neoplatonism with Christianity -- 5. The geography of the Latin age -- 6. The so-called Dark Ages -- 7. Cresting a wave: the second stage -- 8. The fate of sign in the later Latin age -- 9. Three outcomes, two Ddstinies -- 10. The road not taken -- 11. Beyond the Latin umwelt: science comes of age -- 12. The founding fathers: Rene Descartes and John Locke -- 13. Synthesis and successors: the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- 14. Locke again: the scheme of human knowledge -- 15. Charles Sanders Peirce and the recovery of Signum -- 16. Semiology: modernity's attempt to treat the sign -- 17. At the turn of the twenty-first century -- 18. Beyond realism and idealism: resume and envoi |
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880-01/(S Plato (c.427â€347BC)Aristotle (384â€322BC) -- Looking Forward to Latinity, First Aspect -- 4 The Final Greek Centuries and the Overlap of Neoplatonism with Christianity -- The Founding of Stoicism, and, as Background Thereto, Cynicism -- The Stoic Development -- Skepticism and Epicureanism -- The Counterpoint of Stoicism and Epicureanism in the Last Greek Centuries -- Neoplatonism -- The Tree of Porphyry -- Looking Forward to Latinity, Second Aspect: The Greek Notion of Σημείον as Natural Sign -- PART TWO: THE LATIN AGE: PHILOSOPHY OF BEING |
| Summary |
The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Philosophy -- History.
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Semiotics -- History
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Postmodernism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy
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Postmodernism
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Semiotics
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e-books.
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History
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Livres numériques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442675032 |
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1442675039 |
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