Purely Objective Reality by John Deely
In his 'Letter on Humanism' of 1947, Heidegger declared that the subject/object opposition and the terminology that accrues to it had still not been properly addressed in the history of philosophy, and he awaited a proper disquisition that resolved the problem. To date, that has not been provided. This volume explains and solves the prevailing problems in the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, in the process making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. This book shows that what is thought to be 'objective' in the commonplace use of the term is demonstrably different from what objectivity entails when it is revealed by semiotic analysis. It demonstrates in its exegesis of the 'objective' that human existence is frequently governed by examples of a 'purely objective reality' – a fiction which nevertheless perfuses, is perfused by, and guides experience. The ontology of the sign can be mind-dependent or mind-independent, just as the status of relation can be as legitimate on its own terms whether it is found in ens rationis or in ens reale. The difference in the awareness of human animals consists in this very contextualization that Deely's writings in general have made so evident: the ability to identify signs as sign relations, and the ability to enact relations on a mind-dependent basis. Purely Objective Reality offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality' will be instrumental in the survival – or destruction – of planet Earth.-
Culture and Explosion
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Forms of Living
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Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare
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Novelty in Metaphors
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Linguistic Supertypes
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Semiotics and City Poetics
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Sphere of Understanding
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Differences, Similarities and Meanings
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On the Corposphere
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The Natural History of the Sign
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Charles S. Peirce. Selected Writings on Semiotics, 18941912
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Sign Studies and Semioethics
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Charles Sanders Peirce in His Own Words
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Heroizability
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The Intersection of Semiotics and Phenomenology
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Thinking with Diagrams
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Semiotics and its Masters
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The Meanings of the Built Environment
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Readings in Zoosemiotics
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Entangling Forms
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Signifying and Understanding
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Semiotics Continues to Astonish
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Semiotics at the Circus
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Semiotics of Classical Music
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Wittgenstein in Translation
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Signs, Meaning and Experience
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Theory and Methodology of Semiotics
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Introduction to the Semiotics of the Text
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Semiotics of Friendship
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Transcending Signs
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Semiotics and Documentary Film
John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781934078082 |
| ISBN 10 | 1934078085 |
| Title | Purely Objective Reality |
| Author | John Deely |
| Series | Semiotics Communication And Cognition [Scc] |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2011-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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