Signs, Intentionality, and Imaginability : Selected Papers /
This book contains essays by Horst Ruthrof, tracing the author's intellectual history from his encounter with literature to his critique of the philosophy of language. If you have ever felt that our linguistic and philosophical approaches to language lack an explanation of what renders it so po...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2026.
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Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Semiotics, Signs of the Times ;
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Call Number: P99
- 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.