Concord in Discourse
Harmonics and Semiotics in Late Classical and Early Medieval Platonism
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XI, 390 pages
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Harmonics and Semiotics in Late Classical and Early Medieval Platonism
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Harmonics and Semiotics in Late Classical and Early Medieval Platonism
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Content
- Intro
- Conventions of translation and transliteration
- Introduction
- 0.1 Modern notions of structure and signification
- Part I: Concord
- Chapter 1: Concord in general
- 1.1 Harmony, signification, and the structure of semantic fields
- 1.2 The schemata of writing and reading
- 1.3 Augustine's understanding of order and concord
- 1.4 Eriugena's understanding of order and harmony
- 1.5 Musical paradigms in Augustine and Boethius
- 1.6 The concept of relation in ancient and modern philosophy
- Excursus to Chapter 1
- Excursus to section 1.3
- Excursus to section 1.5
- Part II: The logical
- Chapter 2: Components of concord - Binary relations (ontological)
- 2.1 Eriugena and the square of opposition
- 2.2 Relation in ps.-Augustine: Categoriae decem
- 2.3 Eriugena's theory of relation
- 2.4 Ratio in Boethius' De institutione arithmetica
- 2.5 Eriugena's theory of ratio
- 2.6 Extensions of the Eriugenian theory of ratio
- Excursus to Chapter 2
- Excursus to section 2.2
- Excursus to section 2.4
- Excursus to section 2.6
- Part III: The harmonic
- Chapter 3: Components of concord - Ternary relations (ontological)
- 3.1 Trinitarian concord in Thierry of Chartres and his sources
- 3.2 The resolution of oppositions according to Augustine
- 3.3 Mediation in the cosmology and psychology of Calcidius
- 3.4 Ancient and medieval antecedents of the "semiotic square"
- 3.5 Mediation in the cosmology and angelology of Eriugena
- 3.6 The Eriugenian transcendent harmony
- Excursus to Chapter 3
- Excursus 1 to section 3.4
- Excursus 2 to section 3.4
- Excursus 3 to section 3.4
- Part IV: The semiotic
- Chapter 4: Components of concord - Ternary relations (semantic)
- 4.1 Eriugena and the triad of signifier, signified, and signification
- 4.2 Signification in Martianus Capella: De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii
- 4.3 Eriugena's theory of signification
- 4.4 Symbolism in ps.-Dionysius' De caelesti hierarchia
- 4.5 Eriugena's theory of symbolism
- 4.6 Extensions of the Eriugenian theory of symbolism
- Excursus to Chapter 4
- Excursus to section 4.2
- Excursus to section 4.4
- Excursus to section 4.6
- Part V: Translations and commentary
- Chapter 5: The notion of concord in ancient and medieval philosophy
- 5.1 Concord among angels and saints
- 5.2 Concord in the spiritual world
- 5.3 Concord in the world soul
- 5.4 Concord of the elements in the world
- 5.5 Concord among planets and stars
- 5.6 Concord in the celestial world
- 5.7 Concord in the human soul
- 5.8 Concord of the elements in man
- Notes
- Bibliographies
- Addenda to bibliography (1995)
- Index
