Four ages of understanding : the first postmodern survey of philosophy from ancient times to the turn of the twenty-first century / / John Deely
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| Autore: |
Deely John N.
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| Titolo: |
Four ages of understanding : the first postmodern survey of philosophy from ancient times to the turn of the twenty-first century / / John Deely
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001 |
| ©2001 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1054 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 190 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy - History |
| Semiotics - History | |
| Postmodernism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Livres numeriques. |
| History | |
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| 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." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Four ages of understanding |
| ISBN: | 1-4875-3995-9 |
| 1-4426-7503-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807183103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Toronto studies in semiotics.