... approach misses is that even the religious discourses of the period were tied to a long and in no way local epistemological debate about signs and their meaning, whose roots are to be found in Greek and Latin rhetorical theory. This first installment of “Tokens of Love” commences a discussion of the role...

...Mikhail Epstein In this guest column, Epstein offers “a new sign” that, he argues, resolves difficulties that have arisen in many theories and practices, including linguistics, semiotics, literary theory, poetics, aesthetics, ecology, ecophilology, eco-ethics, metaphysics, theology, psychology...

... France. He also is the editor of Philosophical Fictions and the French Renaissance and the coeditor (with Philip Ford) of La Librairie de Montaigne. Yaakov Mascetti is a lecturer in comparative literature at Bar- Ilan University and the author of Tokens of Love: Humanist Sign- Theory and Protestant...

... in the two sexes differs. She offers her reader a starkly gendered epistemology and sign theory that empower the female eye of faith with the capacity to perceive the dislocated meanings that still exist beyond the signs that truly signify them no longer. Men are those whose minds cannot cognize the truth...

... supposed that, in reaching my conclusion, I wanted to subscribe to all the implications of Haber- mas’s theory of consensus formation; but this is not the case. Rather, I believe that, in negotiations designed to achieve agreement, there can...

... Choreography, from the etymological perspective and by virtue of current usage, seems to be a portmanteau word referring to two kinds of action: writing ( gra- phie) and dancing (choros). As such, the word choreography seems to encode a theory of the relation of dance to scripturality — of writing...

... others. among one game only is or“communicating” “signifying” whatwe call which among signs, with things of kinds all do can that we rightsay to was Wittgenstein signification. of theory ageneral neverestablish to was ambition His signs. with as meaning muchwith...

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..., Handbuch Richard Rorty . 2. Rorty, On Philosophy and Philosophers ; Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (lectures appearing in English for the first time); and What Can We Hope For? The latter contains four previously unpublished essays. 3. Chin, Practice of Political Theory...

... need to consider that, while in theory meanings can be parsed into ever more finely grained nuances, in spoken practical processes the signs and words by which we convey meanings do their pragmatic work at a coarser granularity. If, at a dinner party, A asks B to “pass the fish, please...

... that the misuse of metaphorical language contributes to bad phi- losophy, we can trace his complaints about Buffon’s metaphors at a microtextual level to larger questions of language theory. Condillac’s critique of figurative lan- guage in Buffon, rather...

...: Johns University Press, (Baltimore, Hopkins Narrative, Trauma, Experience: Unclaimed 5 honor, the mind, isthe conscience the and of epoch.” our “the party mentslike represented in conceptualist art as signs constructed out of, or modeled on, state are themselves heart and Evenmind...

..., is professor emeritus of the sociology of science at the University of Edinburgh. His books include The Enigma of the Aerofoil: Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909 – 1926; Knowledge and Social Imagery; Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge; Witt- genstein...

...Yaakov A. Mascetti Abstract In the second installment of this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Contextualism—the Next Generation,” Donne's religious poetry is set in dialogue not only with the “Great Controversy” of the 1560s over the nature of the eucharistic sign but also with pre...

... if no one is there to perceive the transfer. In contrast, in the realm of the living, “a stimulus must be ‘noticed’ by a subject” to have any effect. Thus, Uexküll claims, “the first task of [the biologist] consists in seeking out the animal's perception signs”—in searching for what, in its surroundings...

... © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Reviews EDITORIAL NOTE On James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed The tendency of physicists is to judge the theory and praxis of other natural sciences to be inexact...

...).Yetand contrasting thoughts their of owning principle, capable, in ofpeople always sense the (in “subject” ofthe limit the mark thought unconscious and possession, of madness, states ofFrench that theory, part alarge to and psychoanalysis to both important foralien. her...

... with Christ than with the truth.2 Nothing in Derrida’s work acknowledges Dostoevsky’s critique of nihilism (in Demons), nor his followers’ linking of Bakhtin’s version of Dostoevsky’s “dia- logic discourse” to deconstructive theory through...

... had signed a pledge supporting National Socialism in 1933—had to wait until 1995 for an English translation. It is small wonder that Chenu's work appealed to students and teachers alike in the 1960s. With vast learning, and in graceful but not by any means easy prose, Chenu put the important...

.... 3. Jane Tompkins, “Fighting Words: Unlearning to Write the Critical Essay,” Georgia Review 42.3 (1988): 587. CK 9.1-05 Hutcheon 10/31/02 10:28 AM Page 44 arship,” a sign of that deeply competitive, indeed...