LEADER 06108nam 2200757 450 001 9910456515603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-7503-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442675032 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001408 035 $a(EBL)4671526 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000376313 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282888 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000376313 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10332798 035 $a(PQKB)10053547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001141200 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12499782 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001141200 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11089615 035 $a(PQKB)10605575 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600653 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3258442 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671526 035 $a(DE-B1597)464481 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938121 035 $a(OCoLC)944178103 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442675032 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671526 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257232 035 $a(OCoLC)244768158 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001408 100 $a20160922h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFour ages of understanding $ethe first postmodern survey of philosophy from ancient times to the turn of the twenty-first century /$fJohn Deely 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2001. 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (1054 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Studies in Semiotics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4426-1301-7 311 $a0-8020-4735-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAviso: Why Read This Book? -- $tContents at a Glance -- $tContents in Detail -- $tList of Tables and Illustrations -- $tReconocimientos -- $tPreface: The Boundary of Time -- $tCHAPTER ONE: Society and Civilization: The Prelude to Philosophy -- $tPART ONE: Ancient Philosophy -- $tCHAPTER TWO: Philosophy as Physics -- $tCHAPTER THREE: The Golden Age: Philosophy Expands Its Horizon -- $tCHAPTER FOUR: The Final Greek Centuries and the Overlap of Neoplatonism with Christianity -- $tPART TWO: The Latin Age -- $tCHAPTER FIVE: The Geography of the Latin Age -- $tCHAPTER SIX: The So-Called Dark Ages -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN: Cresting a Wave: The Second Stage -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT: The Fate of Sign in the Later Latin Age -- $tCHAPTER NINE: Three Outcomes, Two Destinies -- $tCHAPTER TEN: The Road Not Taken -- $tPART THREE: The Modern Period -- $tCHAPTER ELEVEN: Beyond the Latin Umwelt: Science Comes of Age -- $tCHAPTER TWELVE: The Founding Fathers: Rene Descartes and John Locke -- $tCHAPTER 13: Synthesis and Successors: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- $tCHAPTER FOURTEEN: Locke Again: The Scheme of Human Knowledge -- $tPART FOUR: Postmodern Times -- $tCHAPTER FIFTEEN: Charles Sanders Peirce and the Recovery of Signum -- $tCHAPTER SIXTEEN: Semiology: Modernity's Attempt to Treat the Sign -- $tCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: At the Turn of the Twenty-first Century -- $tCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: At the Turn of the Twenty-first Century -- $tHistorically Layered References -- $tGloss on the References -- $tIndex: RERUM ET PERSONARUM -- $tTimetable of Figures 330 $aThis book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in philosophy for the next fifty or so years. By making the theory of signs the dominant theme in "Four Ages of Understanding", John Deely has produced a history of philosophy that is innovative, original, and complete. 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".Deely examines the whole movement of past developments in the history of philosophy in relation to the emergence of contemporary semiotics as the defining moment of Postmodernism. Beginning traditionally with the Pre-Socratic thinkers of early Greece, Deely gives an account of the development of the notion of signs and of the general philosophical problems and themes which give that notion a context through four ages: Ancient philosophy, covering initial Greek thought; the Latin age, philosophy in European civilization from Augustine in the 4th century to Poinsot in the 17th; the Modern period, beginning with Descartes and Locke; and the Postmodern period, beginning with Charles Sanders Peirce and continuing to the present. Reading the complete history of philosophy in light of the theory of the sign allows Deely to address the work of thinkers never before included in a general history, and in particular to overcome the gap between Ockham and Descartes which has characterized the standard treatments heretofore. One of the essential features of the book is the way in which it shows how the theme of signs opens a perspective for seeing the Latin Age from its beginning with Augustine to the work of Poinsot as an indigenous development and organic unity under which all the standard themes of ontology and epistemology find a new resolution and place.A magisterial general history of philosophy, Deely's book provides both a strong background to semiotics and a theoretical unity between philosophy's history and its immediate future. 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