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Author Deely, John N.

Title Four ages of understanding : the first postmodern survey of philosophy from ancient times to the turn of the twenty-first century / John Deely
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description xxxiii, 1019 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Toronto studies in semiotics
Toronto studies in semiotics.
Contents Aviso: Why Read this Book? -- Preface: The Boundary of Time -- 1. Society and Civilization: The Prelude to Philosophy -- Pt. 1. Ancient Philosophy: The Discovery of "Reality" -- 2. Philosophy as Physics -- 3. The Golden Age: Philosophy Expands Its Horizon -- 4. The Final Greek Centuries and the Overlap of Neoplatonism with Christianity -- Pt. 2. The Latin Age: Philosophy of Being -- 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 Destinies -- 10. The Road Not Taken -- Pt. 3. The Modern Period: The Way of Ideas -- 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 -- Pt. 4. Postmodern Times: The Way of Signs -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [743]-836) and index
Notes English
Subject Philosophy -- History.
Semiotics -- History.
Postmodernism.
LC no. 2001275147
ISBN 0802047351 alkaline paper