Between Signs and Non-Signs
1st Edition
Published on 10. December 1992
XXIX, 322 pages
978-90-272-7740-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Italian philosopher F. Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) conducted pioneering work in the philosophy of language. His research is characterised by a critique of language and ideology in relation to sign production processes and the process of social reproduction. Between Signs and Non-Signs is a collection of 14 articles by Rossi-Landi written between 1952 and 1984 and gives an overview of his contribution to the philosophy of language and his critique of Charles Morris, Wittgenstein, Bachtin, and his Italian contemporaries. It is in fact a project initiated by the author and now posthumously completed by the editor, with a complete bibliography of Rossi-Landi's extensive work. Susan Petrilli's Introduction gives a fresh view of the importance of Rossi-Landi's work to modern critical theory.
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- BETWEEN SIGNS AND NON-SIGNS
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Notes
- References
- Sidelights
- I. SIGNS AND MASTERS IN SEMIOTIC HISTORY
- 1. A Fragment in the History of Italian Semiotics
- Premise
- 1.1 Communication in the History of Ideas
- 1.2 Flour from My Own Mill
- References
- 2. Signs about a Master of Signs
- 2.1 A Personal Premise
- 2.2 Remarks about This Selection
- 2.3 Semiotics and Philosophy
- 2.4 At the Threshold of "Social Practice" in FTS
- 2.5 Semiotics as a Biological Science in SLB
- 2.6 Sign-behavior vs. Behavior-as-communication
- 2.7 Sign-vehicles, Signifiants, and Signs
- 2.8 Meaning and the Three Dimensions
- 2.9 Summary and Conclusions
- 2.10 Writings by Charles Morris
- Notes
- References
- 3. On some Post-Morrisian Problems
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Semiotics and Philosophy
- 3.3 Signs and Values
- 3.4 Charles Morris and Social Practice
- 3.5 Semiosis and Meaning
- 3.6 Behavior and Communication
- 3.7 Behaving and "Moving About
- 3.8 Conclusion
- References
- 4. Wittgenstein, Old and New
- 4.1 Foreword
- 4.2 Wittgenstein's Iceberg
- 4.3 Wittgenstein and Semiotics
- 4.4 Ideas for a Common Approach to Marx, Freud, and Wittgenstein
- 4.5 Wittgenstein and Alienation
- References
- II. SIGNS AS COGNITIVE AND EVALUATIVE INSTRUMENTS
- 5. Toward an Analysis of Appraisive Signs in Esthetics
- 5.1 Morris's Behavioral Approach
- 5.2 Draft of an Operational Approach to Esthetic Values
- Notes
- References
- 6. On Absurdity
- Head Note
- On Absurdity (1963)
- 6.1 "Category Mistakes" and the Reductio Ad Absurdum According to Linguistic Philosophy
- 6.2 Ryle's Procedure
- 6.3 General Weakness of the Appeal to Absurdity
- 6.4 Various Types of Absurdity, from "Linguistic" to "Real
- 6.4.1 Unknown Words and Their Combinations
- 6.4.2 Odd Combinations of Words
- 6.4.3 Difficult or Contradictory Combinations of Words
- 6.4.4 Illegitimate, or Spurious, Combinations of Words
- 6.4.5 Strangeness in the Thing Reported or Spoken About
- 6.4.6 Self-effacing Combinations of Words
- 6.5 Absurdity and Logical Types
- Notes
- References
- 7. On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences
- 7.1 Some Cases of Paired Terms
- 7.2 Instances of Overlapping Categories
- 7.2.1 Production and Consumption
- 7.2.2 Public and Private
- 7.2.3 Communication and Behavior
- 7.2.4 Language and Thought
- 7.2.5 Thought and Social Institutions
- 7.3 A Hint at the Dialectic of Essence and Phenomena
- Note
- References
- III. SIGNS, LINGUISTIC ALIENATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
- 8. Introduction to Semiosis and Social Reproduction
- 8.1 Foreword and Outline
- 8.2 Does Semiotics Exist?
- 8.3 Social Reproduction in General
- 8.4 Social Reproduction vs. Reality
- 8.5 Three Complementary Approaches
- 9. Articulations in Verbal and Objectual Sign Systems
- Foreword
- 9.1 Artefacts and Work
- 9.2 Homology of Production
- 9.2.1 First Level: Presignificant Items
- 9.2.2 Second Level: Irreducibly Significant Items
- 9.2.3 Third Level: "Completed" Pieces
- 9.2.4 Fourth Level: Utensils and Sentences
- 9.2.5 Fifth Level: Aggregates of Utensils
- 9.2.6 Sixth Level: Mechanism
- 9.2.7 Seventh Level: Complex and Self-sufficient Mechanisms
- 9.2.8 Eighth Level: Total Mechanism or Automation
- 9.2.9 Ninth Level: Nonrepeatable Production
- 9.2.10 Tenth Level: Global Production
- 9.3 Plurality of Articulations
- 10. Sign Systems and Social Reproduction
- 10.1 Social Reproduction as the Principle of All Things
- 10.1.1 Social Reproduction, Social Practice, and History
- 10.1.2 The Idea of a Catalogue of Social Reproduction
- 10.1.3 Social Reproduction as the Matrix of All Possible Categories
- 10.2 The Articulations of Social Reproduction
- 10.2.1 Production, Exchange, and Consumption
- 10.2.2 Structure and Superstructure
- 10.2.3 Modes of Production, Sign Systems, and Ideological Institutions
- 10.3 Sign Systems in Social Reproduction
- 10.3.1 The Presence of Nonverbal Sign Systems
- 10.3.2 The Influence of the Nonverbal upon the Verbal
- 10.3.3 The Position of Language in the Structure-superstructure Circle
- 10.3.4 Planning at Three Levels of All Behavior
- 10.3.5 Sign Systems and the Production of Consensus
- Note
- References
- 11. Ideas for the Study of Linguistic Alienation
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Linguistic Capital, Constant
- 11.3 Linguistic Capital, Variable
- 11.4 Total Linguistic Capital
- 11.5 Linguistic Exploitation
- 11.6 Linguistic Consumerism
- Notes
- References
- IV. SIGNS AND MATERIAL REALITY
- 12. Signs and Bodies
- Notes
- 13. Ideas for a Manifesto of Materialistic Semiotics
- 14. Toward a Theory of Sign Residues
- 14.1 Introduction: Sign Systems and Social Reproduction
- 14.2 The Typology of Signs as a Function of Social Reproduction
- 14.3 The Totality "Sign," and "Sign Residues
- 14.3.1 Residues on the Side of Signantia
- 14.3.2 Residues on the Side of the Signata
- 14.4 Signs as Mediating between the Material and the Social
- References
- Writings by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi
- Index Auctorum
- Index Rerum
