
On the Past, Present, and Future of Semioethics
A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2025
Book
Hardback
138 pages
978-1-041-01505-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship.
Featuring a wide-ranging conversation between Petrilli and scholar Simon Levesque, the book makes the case for semioethics as a critical approach that can help us better understand important issues at stake in today's world, such as precarity, social responsibility, and climate change, through the interplay of signs, meaning-making, and interpretation. The dialogue is organized around key chapters in Petrilli's career, exploring the influences of such scholars as Peirce and Bakhtin, the collaborations with Sebeok and Eco, and the efforts in revitalizing the work of Victoria Welby. The book explores how these strands culminated in the creation of semioethics with Petrilli's longtime collaborator, Augusto Ponzio, and looks ahead to new directions for the further study of the relation between signs and values, semiotics and axiology, and communication and ethics.
Highlighting the expansiveness of Petrilli's body of work and the possibilities of semioethics in addressing key questions in contemporary social life for a better world, this volume will be of interest to scholars in semiotics, language and communication, philosophy of language, and cultural studies.
Featuring a wide-ranging conversation between Petrilli and scholar Simon Levesque, the book makes the case for semioethics as a critical approach that can help us better understand important issues at stake in today's world, such as precarity, social responsibility, and climate change, through the interplay of signs, meaning-making, and interpretation. The dialogue is organized around key chapters in Petrilli's career, exploring the influences of such scholars as Peirce and Bakhtin, the collaborations with Sebeok and Eco, and the efforts in revitalizing the work of Victoria Welby. The book explores how these strands culminated in the creation of semioethics with Petrilli's longtime collaborator, Augusto Ponzio, and looks ahead to new directions for the further study of the relation between signs and values, semiotics and axiology, and communication and ethics.
Highlighting the expansiveness of Petrilli's body of work and the possibilities of semioethics in addressing key questions in contemporary social life for a better world, this volume will be of interest to scholars in semiotics, language and communication, philosophy of language, and cultural studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-01505-5 (9781041015055)
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Susan Petrilli | Simon Levesque
On the Past, Present, and Future of Semioethics
A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli
E-Book
06/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€31.49
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Susan Petrilli | Simon Levesque
On the Past, Present, and Future of Semioethics
A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli
E-Book
06/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€31.49
Available for download
Persons
Susan Petrilli is Professor of Theory and Philosophy of Language at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy.
Simon Levesque is Lecturer in Semiotics and Literary Studies at Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada. He is Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal in semiotics Cygne noir.
Simon Levesque is Lecturer in Semiotics and Literary Studies at Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada. He is Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal in semiotics Cygne noir.
Content
Prologue
1: Enter Thomas Sebeok
2: About Victoria Welby
3: With Augusto Ponzio
4: Critique and ideology
5: Semioethics
6: Philosophy and science
7: Humanism and responsibility
8: Social symptomatology
9: On the future of semiotics
Epilogue
References
Index
1: Enter Thomas Sebeok
2: About Victoria Welby
3: With Augusto Ponzio
4: Critique and ideology
5: Semioethics
6: Philosophy and science
7: Humanism and responsibility
8: Social symptomatology
9: On the future of semiotics
Epilogue
References
Index