Peirce and Value Theory
On Peircian ethics and aesthetics
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 1994
XIII, 381 pages
978-90-272-7661-2 (ISBN)
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Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Congress (Harvard University, September 1989). The volume is devoted to themes within Peirce's value theory and offers a comprehensive view of less known aspects of his influential philosophy, in particular Peirce's work on ethics and aesthetics.The book is divided in four sections. Section I discusses the status of ethics as a normative science and its relation with logic; some applications are presented, e.g. in the field of bioethics. Section II investigates the specific position of Peircean aesthetics with regard to classical American philosophy, especially Buchler, to Husserlian phenomenology, and to European structuralism (Saussure, Jakobson). Section III contains papers on internal aspects of Peirce's aesthetics and its place in his thought. The final section presents applications of Peirce's aesthetic theory: analyses of visual art (mainly paintings), of literary texts and of musical meaning.
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- PEIRCE AND VALUE THEORY ON PEIRCEAN ETHICS AND AESTHETICS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- NOTES
- Introduction
- I. Peirce on Ethics
- Rendering the World more Reasonable: The Practical Significance of Peirce's Normative Science
- 1. Introduction
- 1. The Nature of Normative Science
- 2. The Three Goods of the Normative Sciences
- 3. Theoretical Presuppositions About Theory and Practice
- 4. Practical Implications of the Normative Sciences
- NOTE
- Peirce and Royce on Person: New Directions for Ethical Theory
- Introduction
- 1. Person as an Intersubjective, Relational, Developmental Mode of Being
- 2. Person and Self-contribution
- 3. Person as Relational, Developmental, Contextual - Some Implications
- C.S. Peirceand Philosophical Ethics
- 1. Peirce's Criticism of Philosophical Ethics
- 2. The "Normative Sciences
- 3. "Sentiment" and Communicative Ethics
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- A Peircean Account of Moral Judgments
- NOTES
- What Logic Can Learn From Ethics
- Collaboration and Casuistry: A Peircean Pragmatic for the Clinical Setting
- Introduction
- 1. Collaboration
- 2. Casuistry
- 3. Key Peircean Concepts
- 4. Peirce's Concepts in the Clinical-Ethical Context
- 5. Assessment
- Peircean Triads in the Work of J. Lacan: Desire and the Ethics of the Sign
- Introduction
- Never Give Up Desiring
- Do Not Block the Way of Inquiry (1.135-45)
- II. Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of Philosophical Thought
- The Primacy of the Aesthetic in Peirce and Classic American Philosophy
- 1. The Valuational Matrix of Logic as Semeiotic
- 2. Peirce's Responsiveness to Art
- 3. Santayana, Mead, Dewey, and Buchler
- NOTES
- Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning
- NOTES
- Peirce and Husserl: Abduction, Apperception and Aesthetics
- Introduction
- Apperception in Husserl's view
- Peirce's Way of Understanding Abduction
- The Meaning of Regression : Aesthetics and Phenomenology
- Conclusion
- Peirce, Saussure and Jakobson's Aesthetic Function: Towards a Synthetic View of the Aesthetic Function
- Introduction
- 1. Jakobson's Aesthetic Function in the Milieu of Saussurean and Peircean Perspectives
- 1.1 The bipolar sign and the artifice
- 1.2 Sound shape and immediate signification
- 1.3 Jakobson's artifice and Peirce's human sign
- 2. Peirce and the Aesthetic Function
- 2.1 Triadism and the human sign
- 2.2 The degenerate sign - degrees of interpretation
- NOTES
- Some Reflections on Peirce's Aesthetics from a Structuralist Point of View
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Aesthetics Inside the Classification of Sciences
- 2. Some more Remarks about Aesthetics and Art Criticism
- 3. The Aesthetic Experience as a Form of Reasoning
- 4. Aesthetics as a Form of Knowledge and as a Form of Experience
- III. Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of his Thought
- The Place of Peirce's 'Esthetic' in his Thought and in the Tradition of Aesthetics
- 1. The Original Aim of Aesthetics
- 2. The Appropriate Character of Feeling
- 3. Pleasure and Pain in Peirce's Empirical Psychology
- 4. The "Sense of Taking a Habit" and "Habits of Feeling
- NOTES
- Peircean Fragments on the Aesthetic Experience
- Introduction
- 1. Beauty as kalos
- 2. The Signifícate Effect: the Quality of Feeling
- 3. The Ground: The Metaphorical Hypoicon
- 4. Aristotelian and Kantian Hints
- Aesthetic Experience in Charles S. Peirce: The Threshold
- 1. Grandmother Aesthetics
- 2. The True Sequence
- 3. The Virtual Thing and the Coming into Existence
- 4. Adam's Sight, the Glimpse
- 5. Instantaneous Reality. The Thirdness
- 6. Previousness
- NOTES
- The Mediating Role of 'Esthetics' in Charles S. Peirce's Semiotics: Configurations and Space Relations
- 1. The Method of Methods
- 2. The Indefinite As Ground of Real Value
- The Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics of Geometrical Construction
- Introduction
- 1. The Ethics of Geometrical Construction
- 2. The Aesthetic Ideal
- 3. The Ultimate Aim of Reasoning
- 4. Practical versus Theoretical Reasoning
- 5. Pure Science
- 6. Peirce's Pragmatic Maxim: Action, Conduct, and Self-control
- 7. Conclusion
- IV. Peirce's Aesthetics and its Applications
- Objects, Signs, and Works of Art: A Semiotic Study of Aesthèsis
- 1. Objects
- 2. Works of Art
- 3. Aesthetic Objectivity
- 4. Aesthetic Subjectivity
- Representation and Intersemiosis
- 1. Theoretical Considerations
- 1.1 Intersemiosis
- 1.2 Complex objects and representation
- 1.3 Complex semioses and representation
- 2. Analysis
- 2.1 A complex object
- 2.2 The visual sign
- 2.3 Representations
- 2.4 The verbal text
- 2.5 Representation and intersemiosis
- Peirce and Literary Studies with Special Emphasis on the Theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle
- Introduction
- 1. Peirce as Writer
- 2. Peirce as Linguist and Literary Critic
- 3. Peirce and the Development and the Contemporary Structural and Semiotic Poetics
- 4. Literature as Communication
- 5. The Fictive World
- 6. Peirce's Antipositivistic Scientific Method and Modern Poetics
- 7. Pragmaticism
- 7.1 Pragmaticism and meaning
- 7.2 Pragmaticism and function
- 7.3 Pragmaticism and the concept of norm violation
- 7.4 Pragmatism and the interaction between sender and receiver in artistic texts
- 8. Peirce's Phenomenological Categories
- NOTES
- Scientific Fiction and Literary Fiction
- 'Origin' in the Peircean Interpretation of a Painting
- Introduction
- 1. The Analytic Process
- 2. Buren and Morellet
- 3. Van Gogh
- 4. Massé and Wiener
- 5. Rupture
- Can Peirce be Applied to Music?
- Introduction
- 1. Musical Form as a Cognition of the Musicologist or Application 1: Bohuslav Martinu
- 2. Musical Realism and Iconicity or Application 2: Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
- A Peircean Perspective on the Growth of Markedness and Musical Meaning
- 1. A Theory of Musical Meaning
- 2. Markedness and Peirce's Categories as Applied to the Growth of Musical Style
- 3. Types and Tokens in Beethoven's Triad Doublings
- 4. Conclusion
- NOTES
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
