Signs, Intentionality, and Imaginability

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Original Publications



Introduction: from Literary Theory to the Critique of Language Philosophy



Part 1



Signs in Literary Theory



Introduction to Part 1



1 Reading the Signs of Literary Works



2 Signs in Translation



3 Motivated Signifieds: the Fourth Critique



4 The Role of Imaginability in Literary Semantics



Part 2



Intentionality in Peircean Semiotics



Introduction to Part 2



5 How to Get the Body Back into the Linguistic Sign



6 Intentionality as Sufficient Semiosis



7 Signs of Resemblance: Hypoiconicity as Intentionality



Part 3



Locke, Kant, Heidegger, Einstein and Freud



Introduction to Part 3

8 The Logos of Modernity: Vernunftspaltung



9 From Kant's Monogram to Conceptual Blending



10 Locke: Linguistic Meaning as Indirectly Public



11 Missing Signs: Heidegger's Forgetting of Perception



12 Signs of Irrationality: Einstein and Freud on Why War?



Part 4



Imaginable Signs in the Phenomenology of Language



Introduction to Part 4



13 Speculations on the Origins of Linguistic Signification



14 Knowing a Language: What Sort of Knowing Is It?



15 Perception or Imaginability: Which Has Primacy in Language?



16 On Sign Compulsion in Natural Language



Conclusion

Bibliography

Index