Charles S. Peirce S Philosophy of Signs (English, Gerard Deledalle)

[Note: Picture of Peirce available]Charles S. Peirces Philosophy of SignsEssays in Comparative SemioticsGérard DeledallePeirces semiotics and metaphysics compared to the thought of other leading philosophers. "This is essential reading for anyone who wants to find common ground between the best of American semiotics and better-known European theories. Deledalle has done more than anyone else to introduce Peirce to European audiences, and now he sends Peirce home with some new flare."Nathan Houser, Director, Peirce Edition ProjectCharles S. Peirces Philosophy of Signs examines Peirces philosophy and semiotic thought from a European perspective, comparing the Americans unique views with a wide variety of work by thinkers from the ancients to moderns. Parts I and II deal with the philosophical paradigms which are at the root of Peirces new theory of signs, pragmatic and social. The main concepts analyzed are those of "sign" and "semiosis" and their respective trichotomies; formally in the case of "sign," in time in the case of semiosis. Part III is devoted to comparing Peirces theory of semiotics as a form of logic to the work of other philosophers, including Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Frege, Philodemus, Lady Welby, Saussure, Morris, Jakobson, and Marshall McLuhan. Part IV compares Peirces "scientific metaphysics" with European metaphysics.Gérard Deledalle holds the Doctorate in Philosophy from the Sorbonne. A research scholar at Columbia University and Attaché at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, he has also been Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department of the universities of Tunis, Perpignan, and Libreville. In 1990 he received the Herbert W. Schneider Award "for distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of American philosophy. In 2001, he was appointed vice-president of the Charles S. Peirce Society.ContentsIntroductionPeirce Compared: Directions for UsePart ISemeiotic as PhilosophyPeirces New Philosophical ParadigmsPeirces Philosophy of SemeioticPeirces First Pragmatic Papers (1877-1878)The Postscriptum of 1893Part IISemeiotic as SemioticsSign: Semiosis and RepresentamenSemiosis and TimeSign: The Concept and Its UseReading as TranslationPart IIIComparative SemioticsSemiotics and Logic: A Reply to Jerzy PelcSemeiotic and Greek Logic: Peirce and PhilodemusSemeiotic and Significs: Peirce and Lady WelbySemeiotic and Semiology: Peirce and SaussureSemeiotic and Semiotics: Peirce and MorrisSemeiotic and Linguistics: Peirce and JakobsonSemeiotic and Communication: Peirce and McLuhanSemeiotic and Epistemology: Peirce, Frege, and WittgensteinPart IVComparative MetaphysicsGnoseologyPerceiving and Knowing: Peirce, Wittgenstein, and GestalttheorieOntologyTranscendentals "of" or "without" Being: Peirce versus Aristotle and Thomas AquinasCosmologyChaos and Chance within Order and Continuity: Peirce between Plato and DarwinTheologyThe Reality of God: Peirces Triune God and the Churchs TrinityConclusionPeirce: A Lateral View