Excellent. The Preview is VERY generous. Amazon.com: From the Tree to the Labyrinth: Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation (9780674049185): Umberto Eco, Anthony Oldcorn: Books http://buff.ly/1oU0fIi
*@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Gary Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > *Part 1***24 Mar 2014 8:00 am OPEN TO REVISION & COMMENT* > I will be starting a thread on Umberto Eco's new book FROM THE TREE TO THE > LABYRINTH: HISTORICAL STUDIES ON THE SIGN AND INTERPRETATION, trans. > Oldcorn, Harvard, 2014, referring to at least in passing to pages 1, 21, > 90, 331, 355-7, 463, 469, 479-80, 486-7, 508-30, 577-585. I will > concentrate on Eco's "hard core of being" and "lines of resistance" (or > "extralinguistic disciplines" or "extrasemiotic constrictions") and > "forbidden directions" as the "already given" as well as "strong" versus > "weak thought" (especially on Vattimo's interpretation of Nietzsche) > VERSUS: 1] Peirce's failure to state, in his "criticism of > Kant's-thing-in-itself", "that something (hidden behind the appearances > that aspire to mirror 'it' [referring to "The hypothesis of a law is only > one of the ways in which we can react to the encounter with a resistance" > [?], pg. 583]) has, like a mirror, a reverse side that eludes reflection . > . ." (a problem taken from Jürgen Habermas, cf. p. 598), and: 2] "Stating > that there are lines of resistance does NOT amount to saying, AS Peirce > claims, that there are universal laws that operate in nature." Most of > these statements are concentrated in pp. 577-585. > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm. > > > > > >
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