Oddly enough it was Brent, whose biography I am not in love with because it is in a word binary, who explained to my initial satisfaction the working of Threes which I must assume to be the basic structure of semiosis or semiotics. To condense the First as excitation the Second as Blunt Truth and the Third as experimental hypothesis or theory of how one might practically move forward. I thought I has actually been operating and thinking this way in my own life and that I got into trouble mainly when I reverted to the binary. I thought that most of the back and forth in congress resulted from being caught in the binary. I thought Obama is a Peircean either consciously or not.
There is a key work which does not if I remember correctly note Peirce. It is Nisbet's Quest for Community which builds on Tonnies and others to advance the notion that sans community as face to face and self-giving we are more or less toast. This book was laid on me my Fred Schumann at Williams in the 50s. I mention this only to underline that the binary back and forth politics of the present is now beginning to morph into an understanding of a third which is neither conservative or liberal right or left - and it is the power of community that is presently, rightly vague, but which embraces the excitation (widespread discontent), the blunt truth (a sclerotic and somewhat greed-inclined socio-political system) and relates these two things to the daily efforts that are being made to see how to take the baby steps we need to take to get to a future that is sustainable. Peirce like Nietzsche is a posthumous author and I do not believe he will come to full flower save possibly in this century. When he does it will most certainly be because he influenced the thinking behind the global democratic revolution. *ShortFormContent at Blogger* <http://shortformcontent.blogspot.com/> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen, > > There is a curious resonance between several of the political themes that > arose > in our discussion of sciences as communicational communities and several of > the > philosophical (broadly formal, logical, or mathematical) themes that come > up in > Peirce's semiotics. It's an echo that has lurked mostly in the back of my > mind > since the earliest days of my Peirce studies, and it is definitely coming > back > to the fore with recent developments on the contemporary political scene. > > The crux of both the political issue and the semiotic issue rests squarely > with > the concept of representation. On the one hand this refers to the > organization > of a republic endowed with a representative form of government that is > meant to > represent the concerns, the interests, and the will of the People. On the > other > hand this refers to the representation of an object by a sign to an > interpretant. > > Jon > > > Stephen C. Rose wrote: > >> Isn't Peirce's own admission regarding fallibility sufficient to render a >> "scholarly" approach to him in the conventional sense of "when" and "what >> does this mean in light of" somewhat ancillary? Trumped by continuity and >> community and the present task which might be seen in innumerable ways >> suggested at various time in stand alone phrases by Peirce? Today I am >> trying to apply Peirce to what is going on on Wall Street which I feel is >> much bigger than most have yet acknowledged. My feeling is based on what I >> regard as Peircean premises. >> >> *ShortFormContent at Blogger* >> <http://shortformcontent.**blogspot.com/<http://shortformcontent.blogspot.com/> >> > >> > > -- > > facebook page: > https://www.facebook.com/**JonnyCache<https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache> > inquiry list: > http://stderr.org/pipermail/**inquiry/<http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/> > mwb: > http://www.mywikibiz.com/**Directory:Jon_Awbrey<http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey> > policy mic: > www.policymic.com/profile/**show?id=1110<http://www.policymic.com/profile/show?id=1110> > > knol: > http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/**3fkwvf69kridz/1<http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1> > oeiswiki: > http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:**Jon_Awbrey<http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected]
