History, Signing in: Essays in History and SemioticsHistory, Singing in is a double-entendre indicating the dual purpose of this book. First it marks the initial effort by a practicing historian to demonstrate the usefulness of semiotics for the discipline of history. Second, the essays in this volume on Charles S. Peirce, predecessors and successors of Peirce in the United States, the interpretation of historical texts such as Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the historical significance of music and film illustrate the working of signs in both history and the interpretation of history by great thinkers. |
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... possible ) . What Deely has done is make it possible for the uninitiated layman ( and academic ) now to be a conscious semiotician : . . . semiotics must first , in order to achieve its history , identify and hierarchize those moments ...
... possible ) . What Deely has done is make it possible for the uninitiated layman ( and academic ) now to be a conscious semiotician : . . . semiotics must first , in order to achieve its history , identify and hierarchize those moments ...
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... possible . Still , if the Constitution was ultimately doomed , the Founders wished , with North Carolina's delegates , that : ' no precaution [ ought ] to be omitted that might postpone the event as long as possible ' ( Farrand 2 : 101 ) ...
... possible . Still , if the Constitution was ultimately doomed , the Founders wished , with North Carolina's delegates , that : ' no precaution [ ought ] to be omitted that might postpone the event as long as possible ' ( Farrand 2 : 101 ) ...
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... possible to reconcile these two visions of America , the elitist and the pluralist , as political scientists call them ? Perhaps . The Constitution does not offer representation to any group . It offers the opportunity ( not an equal ...
... possible to reconcile these two visions of America , the elitist and the pluralist , as political scientists call them ? Perhaps . The Constitution does not offer representation to any group . It offers the opportunity ( not an equal ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Charles S Peirce and Arisbe | 17 |
Charles S Peirce Historian and Semiotician | 53 |
Copyright | |
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