Between Signs and Non-Signs

1. Introduction (by Petrilli, Susan); 2. Notes; 3. References; 4. Sidelights (by Rossi-Landi, Ferruccio); 5. I. Signs and Masters in Semiotic History; 6. 1. A Fragment in the History of Italian Semiotics; 7. Premise; 8. 1.1 Communication in the History of Ideas; 9. 1.2 Flour from My Own Mill; 10. References; 11. 2. Signs about a Master of Signs; 12. 2.1 A Personal Premise; 13. 2.2 Remarks about This Selection; 14. 2.3 Semiotics and Philosophy; 15. 2.4 At the Threshold of "Social Practice" in FTS; 16. 2.5 Semiotics as a Biological Science in SLB; 17. 2.6 Sign-behavior vs. Behavior-as-communication; 18. 2.7 Sign-vehicles, Signifiants, and Signs; 19. 2.8 Meaning and the Three Dimensions; 20. 2.9 Summary and Conclusions; 21. 2.10 Writings by Charles Morris; 22. Notes; 23. References; 24. 3. On some Post-Morrisian Problems; 25. 3.1 Introduction; 26. 3.2 Semiotics and Philosophy; 27. 3.3 Signs and Values; 28. 3.4 Charles Morris and Social Practice; 29. 3.5 Semiosis and Meaning; 30. 3.6 Behavior and Communication; 31. 3.7 Behaving and "Moving About"; 32. 3.8 Conclusion; 33. References; 34. 4. Wittgenstein, Old and New; 35. 4.1 Foreword; 36. 4.2 Wittgenstein's Iceberg; 37. 4.3 Wittgenstein and Semiotics; 38. 4.4 Ideas for a Common Approach to Marx, Freud, and Wittgenstein; 39. 4.5 Wittgenstein and Alienation; 40. References; 41. II. Signs as Cognitive and Evaluative Instruments; 42. 5. Toward an Analysis of Appraisive Signs in Esthetics; 43. 5.1 Morris's Behavioral Approach; 44. 5.2 Draft of an Operational Approach to Esthetic Values; 45. Notes; 46. References; 47. 6. On Absurdity; 48. Head Note; 49. 6.1 "Category Mistakes" and the Reductio Ad Absurdum According to Linguistic Philosophy; 50. 6.2 Ryle's Procedure; 51. 6.3 General Weakness of the Appeal to Absurdity; 52. 6.4 Various Types of Absurdity, from "Linguistic" to "Real"; 53. 6.5 Absurdity and Logical Types; 54. Notes; 55. References; 56. 7. On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences; 57. 7.1 Some Cases of Paired Terms; 58. 7.2 Instances of Overlapping Categories; 59. 7.3 A Hint at the Dialectic of Essence and Phenomena; 60. Note; 61. References; 62. III. Signs, Linguistic Alienation and Social Reproduction; 63. 8. Introduction to Semiosis and Social Reproduction; 64. 8.1 Foreword and Outline; 65. 8.2 Does Semiotics Exist?; 66. 8.3 Social Reproduction in General; 67. 8.4 Social Reproduction vs. Reality; 68. 8.5 Three Complementary Approaches; 69. 9. Articulations in Verbal and Objectual Sign Systems; 70. Foreword; 71. 9.1 Artefacts and Work; 72. 9.2 Homology of Production; 73. 9.3 Plurality of Articulations; 74. 10. Sign Systems and Social Reproduction; 75. 10.1 Social Reproduction as the Principle of All Things; 76. 10.2 The Articulations of Social Reproduction; 77. 10.3 Sign Systems in Social Reproduction; 78. Notes; 79. References; 80. 11. Ideas for the Study of Linguistic Alienation; 81. 11.1 Introduction; 82. 11.2 Linguistic Capital, Constant; 83. 11.3 Linguistic Capital, Variable; 84. 11.4 Total Linguistic Capital; 85. 11.5 Linguistic Exploitation; 86. 11.6 Linguistic Consumerism; 87. Notes; 88. References; 89. IV. Signs and Material Reality; 90. 12. Signs and Bodies; 91. Notes; 92. 13. Ideas for a Manifesto of Materialistic Semiotics; 93. 14. Toward a Theory of Sign Residues; 94. 14.1 Introduction: Sign Systems and Social Reproduction; 95. 14.2 The Typology of Signs as a Function of Social Reproduction; 96. 14.3 The Totality "Sign," and "Sign Residues"; 97. 14.4 Signs as Mediating between the Material and the Social; 98. References; 99. Writings by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi; 100. Index Auctorum; 101. Index Rerum