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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780659003321

Autore

Deely John N.

Titolo

Four ages of understanding : the first postmodern survey of philosophy from ancient times to the turn of the twenty-first century / / John Deely

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-4875-3995-9

1-4426-7503-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1054 p.)

Collana

Toronto Studies in Semiotics

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy - History

Semiotics - History

Postmodernism

Livres numeriques.

History

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: the boundary of time -- 1. Society and civilization: the prelude to philosophy -- 2. Philosophy as physics -- 3. The Golden Age: philosophy expands its horizon -- 4. The final Greek centuries and the overlap of Neoplatonism with Christianity -- 5. The geography of the Latin age -- 6. The so-called Dark Ages -- 7. Cresting a wave: the second stage -- 8. The fate of sign in the later Latin age -- 9. Three outcomes, two Ddstinies -- 10. The road not taken -- 11. Beyond the Latin umwelt: science comes of age -- 12. The founding fathers: Rene Descartes and John Locke -- 13. Synthesis and successors: the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- 14. Locke again: the scheme of human knowledge -- 15. Charles Sanders Peirce and the recovery of Signum -- 16. Semiology: modernity's attempt to treat the sign -- 17. At the turn of the twenty-first century -- 18. Beyond realism and idealism: resume and envoi.



Sommario/riassunto

The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization."