Peirce and Value Theory
On Peircian ethics and aesthetics
Published on 14. July 1994
Book
Hardback
381 pages
978-1-55619-340-8 (ISBN)
Description
Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Congress (Harvard University, September 1989). The volume is devoted to themes within Peirce's value theory and offers a comprehensive view of less known aspects of his influential philosophy, in particular Peirce's work on ethics and aesthetics.The book is divided in four sections. Section I discusses the status of ethics as a normative science and its relation with logic; some applications are presented, e.g. in the field of bioethics. Section II investigates the specific position of Peircean aesthetics with regard to classical American philosophy, especially Buchler, to Husserlian phenomenology, and to European structuralism (Saussure, Jakobson). Section III contains papers on internal aspects of Peirce's aesthetics and its place in his thought. The final section presents applications of Peirce's aesthetic theory: analyses of visual art (mainly paintings), of literary texts and of musical meaning.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-340-8 (9781556193408)
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Content
1. Preface (by Ketner, Joe); 2. Introduction (by Parret, Herman); 3. I Peirce on Ethics; 4. Rendering the World more Reasonable: The Practical Significance of Peirce's Normative Science (by Stuhr, John J.); 5. Peirce and Royce on Person: New Directions for Ethical Theory (by Kegley, Jacquelyn Ann K.); 6. C.S. Peirce and Philosophical Ethics (by Krois, John Michael); 7. A Peircean Account of Moral Judgments (by Misak, Cheryl); 8. What Logic Can Learn from Ethics (by Smyth, Richard); 9. Collaboration and Casuistry: A Peircean Pragmatic for the Clinical Setting (by Mahowald, Mary B.); 10. Peircean Triads in the Work of J. Lacan: Desire and the Ethics of the Sign (by Saporiti, Elisabeth); 11. II Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of Philosophical Thought; 12. The Primacy of the Aesthetic in Peirce, and Classic American Philosophy (by Tejera, Victorino); 13. Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning (by Marsoobian, Armen); 14. Peirce and Husserl: Abduction, Apperception and Aesthetics (by Bello, Angela Ales); 15. Peirce, Saussure and Jakobson's Aesthetic Function: Towards a Synthetic View of the Aesthetic Function (by Portis-Winner, Irene); 16. Some Reflections on Peirce's Aesthetics from a Structuralist Point of View (by Calabrese, Omar); 17. III Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of his Thought; 18. The Place of Peirce's 'Esthetic' in his Thought and in the Tradition of Aesthetics (by Barnouw, Jeffrey); 19. Peircean Fragments on the Aesthetic Experience (by Parret, Herman); 20. Aesthetic Experience in Charles S. Peirce: The Threshold (by Salabert, Pere); 21. The Mediating Role of 'Esthetics' in Charles S. Peirce's Semiotics: Configurations and Space Relations (by Kevelson, Roberta); 22. The Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics of Geometrical Construction (by Garrison, James D.); 23. IV Peirce's Aesthetics and its Applications; 24. Objects, Signs, and Works of Art: A Semiotic Study of Aesthesis (by Brandt, Per Aage); 25. Representation and Intersemiosis (by Larsen, Svend Erik); 26. Peirce and Literary Studies with Special Emphasis on the Theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle (by Winner, Thomas G.); 27. Scientific Fiction and Literary Fiction (by Franc/ur, Marie); 28. 'Origin' in the Peircean Interpretation of a Painting (by Caruana, Francoise); 29. Can Peirce be Applied to Music? (by Tarasti, Eero); 30. A Peircean Perspective on the Growth of Markedness and Musical Meaning (by Coll. Of Arts & Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee at Chattenooga); 31. References; 32. Index of Names; 33. Index of Subjects