Worldmaking
Will be published approx. on 1. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
VII, 408 pages
978-0-8204-2804-8 (ISBN)
Description
We are not born into a world. We create one from an infinity of possible worlds. The critic of institutions makes us aware of this. The seventeen essays in this volume comprise investigations into religious, philosophical, racial, gendered, literary, legal, federalist, class-based, historical, and scientific worldmaking. They semiotically inquire into the diverse contexts and contents of worldmaking which define the collective adventure of humanity.
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Person
The Editor: William Pencak is Professor of History at Penn State. Author of History, Signing In: Studies in History and Semiotics (Peter Lang, 1993) and author or editor of eleven other books, he was the first historian to serve on the Executive Borard of the Semiotics Society of America. He also edits Pennsylvania History.
The Contributors: William Pencak, Robert Ginsberg, Edwin N. Gorsuch, On-cho Ng, Steven Heine, Anna Makolkin, Stephen S. Fitz, James Smith Allen, Jeffrey J. Polizzotto, Thomas O. Beebee, Diana Royer, Virginia Black, Angela Michele Leonard, Natalie Isser, George Enteen, David K.B. Zeeman.
The Contributors: William Pencak, Robert Ginsberg, Edwin N. Gorsuch, On-cho Ng, Steven Heine, Anna Makolkin, Stephen S. Fitz, James Smith Allen, Jeffrey J. Polizzotto, Thomas O. Beebee, Diana Royer, Virginia Black, Angela Michele Leonard, Natalie Isser, George Enteen, David K.B. Zeeman.