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How to Make Our Signs Clear <UN> Value Inquiry Book Series Founding Editor Robert Ginsberg Executive Editor Leonidas Donskis† Managing Editor J.D. Mininger VOLUME 305 Central European Value Studies Edited by Vasil Gluchman, University of Prešov Affiliate Editors Jaap van Brakel, University of Louvain Eckhard Herych, University of Mainz Assistant Editors Arnold Burms (Belgium) – Herman Parret (Belgium) – B.A.C. Saunders (Belgium) – Frans De Wachter (Belgium) – Anindita Balslev (Denmark) – Lars- Henrik Schmidt (Denmark) – Dieter Birnbacher (Germany) – Stephan Grätzel (Germany) – Thomas Seebohm (Germany) – Olaf Wiegand (Germany) – Alex Burri (Switzerland) – Henri Lauener (Switzerland) The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/vibs <UN> How to Make Our Signs Clear C.S. Peirce and Semiotics Edited by Vít Gvoždiak Martin Švantner LEIDEN | BOSTON <UN> Cover illustration: “Charles Sanders Peirce in 1859” (1859, author unknown; distributed under a CC0 license), image editing by Vít Gvoždiak. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017033082 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 0929-8436 isbn 978-90-04-34777-9 (paperback) isbn 978-90-04-34778-6 (e-book) Copyright 2018 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. <UN> Contents List of Abbreviations vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Švantner part 1 Semioticization of Philosophy 1 On the Interconnection between Peirce’s Pragmatism and Semiotics 9 Emil Višňovský 2 Habits, Purposes and Pragmatism 21 Henrik Rydenfelt 3 Logic of Relatives and Semiotics in Peirce. From the “Subject-Predicate” Inferential Structure to the Synechistic Topology of Interpretation 36 Claudio Paolucci part 2 Historical Connections 4 Reflections on the Presence of Peirce’s Category of Firstness in Schelling’ and Schopenhauer’s Philosophy 59 Ivo Assad Ibri 5 Charybdis of Semiotics and Scylla of Rhetoric. Peirce and Gorgias of Leontini on the Rhetoric of Being 72 Martin Švantner <UN> vi contents part 3 Peirce Challenged 6 “When You Find a Crossroad, Take it”, Or, How to Do the Right Thing, Although Not for the Right Reasons 93 Emanuele Fadda 7 Jakobson and Peirce: Deep Misunderstanding, or Creative Innovation? 106 Vít Gvoždiak 8 Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the Poststructuralist Context 119 Michaela Fišerová 9 Gilles Deleuzeʼs Theory of Sign and Its Reflection of Peircean Semiotics 134 Martin Charvát and Michal Karľa 10 Charles Peirce and the Theory of Disembodiment 151 Stephanie Schneider Index 161 <UN> List of Abbreviations C.S. Peirce’s Works cp x.y Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, 8 volumes, vols. 1–6 edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, vols. 7–8 edited by Arthur W. Burks. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press 1931–1958; volume x, para- graph y. ep x:y The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, 2 volumes, vol. 1 edited by Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel, vol. 2 edited by the Peirce Edition Project. Bloomington – Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1992–1998; volume x, page y. LI x The Logic of Interdisciplinarity. The Monist-Series, edited by Elize Bisanz. Berlin: Akademie Verlag 2009; page x. MS x:y Peirce’s manuscripts as catalogued in Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce, edited by Richard S. Robins. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press 1967; manuscript x, page y. nem x:y The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce, vol. 1–4 edited by Carolyn Eisele,. The Hague: Mouton 1976; volume x, page y. pwp x Philosophical Writings of Peirce, edited by Justus Buchler. New York: Dover Publications, 1955; page x. rlt x Reasoning and the Logic of Things. The Cambridge Conference Lectures of 1898, edited by Kenneth L. Ketner. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press 1992; page x. w x:y The Writings of Charles S. Peirce, vol. 1 edited by Max Fisch et al., vol. 2 edited by Edward C. Moore et al., vols. 3–5 edited by Christian Kloesel et al., vol. 6 edited by the Peirce Edition Project. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1980–2000; volume x, page y. <UN> Notes on Contributors Emil Višňovský is full professor of philosophy at Comenius University and senior research fel- low at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the co- Chair of the Central European Pragmatist Forum (since 2000), the editor in chief of international postdisciplinary journal Human Affairs (since 2002, published in English by de Gruyter) and served as the editor of the book se- ries Central European Value Studies published by the international Publisher Rodopi (2006–2016). <[email protected]> Henrik Rydenfelt is post-doctoral researcher, University of Oulu. His recent publications are concentrated on a pragmatist approach to normativity, addressing key ques- tions in several fields of philosophy, such as epistemology, meta-ethics, ethical theory and social philosophy. <henrik [email protected]> Claudio Paolucci is associate professor of semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Com- munication of the University of Bologna. Since 2014 he is the scientific co- ordinator of the School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, founded by Umberto Eco. He has published more than 60 papers in all major international journals of semiotics. His main work is Strutturalismo e interpretazione (2010). In 2017 he published a book on his mentor Umberto Eco (in the “Heritage” series of the Feltrinelli publishing house). His main research areas are semiotic theory, philosophy of language, semantics, cognitive sciences, enonciation and subjectivity, semiotics of culture. <[email protected]> Ivo Assad Ibri is full professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (pucsp), Brazil. He is the founder and director of the Center for Pragmatism Studies of pucsp, editor of the journals Cognitio and Cognitio-Estudos, and coordinator for the International Meetings on Pragmatism, which biannu- ally take place in São Paulo. His main research field is American pragmatism, especially the work of C.S. Peirce, as well as the theoretical connections be- tween Peircean thought and German idealism. He published several essays on pragmatism and semiotics and a book on Peirce’s metaphysics called Kósmos Noétos (2015). He is a member of the board of consultants of the Peirce Edition Project at Indiana University. He is fellow past vice-president and president <UN> notes on contributors ix (February 2014 to February 2016) of The Charles Sanders Peirce Society (USA). <[email protected]> Martin Švantner is assistant professor at Charles University (Department of Electronic C ulture and Semiotics) and at West Bohemian University (Department of Sociology) and is a member of Research Centre for History and Theory of Science (West Bohemina University). His main theorethical interest lies on philosophy (C.S. Peirce, M. Foucault), history of semiotics, history of rhetorics and theory of argumentation. <[email protected]> Emanuele Fadda is assistant professor of philosophy of language at University of Calabria. He is member of select Committee of the Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure in Geneva, editing the Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure. He wrote several papers on classi- cal pragmatism from a semiotic point of view. His latest book is Peirce (2013). <[email protected]> Vít Gvoždiak is researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech republic. His professional interest is focused on theoretical semiotics and comparative the- ory of signs. <[email protected]> Michaela Fišerová is philosopher, lecturer at Charles university of Prague and M etropolitan university of Prague. Her work is specialized in contemporary French philosophy, mostly in deconstruction and poststructuralism. Her continu- ous research concerns philosophical aspects of the problematics of visual communication, visuality and image, mostly photography and signature. <michaelafi [email protected]> Martin Charvát studied semiotics at Charles University and where also received his PhD. Main domain of his theoretical realm is (appart from philosophy of Deleuze) theory of literature and interpretation of Czech and French novels (B. Hrabal, J.K. Šlejhar, Claude Simon). <[email protected]> Michal Karľa studied religion at Faculty of Arts and semiotics at Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, where he is now a PhD student. Among his research <UN>
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