From the Tree to the Labyrinth

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14  Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi)

15  The Threshold and the Infinite: Peirce and Primary Iconism

16  The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic

17  Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day

18  Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation

      References

      Index

Introduction

At the second congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (Vienna, July 1979) I presented a number of “Proposals for a History of Semiotics.” I recommended that we intensify historical studies on the various theories of the sign and of semiosis over the centuries, first of all because I considered it a necessary contribution to the history of philosophy as a whole, and secondly because I was convinced that to do semiotics today one needed to know how it was done yesterday, however much it might have been disguised as something else. And what better place to begin than from that “Coup d’oeil sur le développement de la sémiotique” with which Roman Jakobson had opened the first international congress of the association five years earlier?

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