Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Introduction — Peirce Compared: Directions for Use

Part I — Semeiotic as Philosophy
Chapter 1. Peirce's New Philosophical Paradigms
Chapter 2. Peirce's Philosophy of Semeiotic
Chapter 3. Peirce's First Pragmatic Papers (1877-1878)
The Postscriptum of 1893

Part II — Semeiotic as Semiotics
Chapter 4. Sign: Semiosis and Representamen—Semiosis and Time
Chapter 5. Sing: The Concept and Its Use—Reading as Translation

Part III — Comparative Semiotics
Chapter 6. Semiotics and Logic: A Reply to Jerzy Pelc
Chapter 7. Semeiotic and Greek Logic: Peirce and Philodemus
Chapter 8. Semeiotic and Significs: Peirce and Lady Welby
Chapter 9. Semeiotic and Semiology: Peirce and Saussure
Chapter 10. Semeiotic and Semiotics: Peirce and Morris
Chapter 11. Semeiotic and Linguistics: Peirce and Jakobson
Chapter 12. Semeiotic and Communication: Peirce and McLuhan
Chapter 13. Semeiotic and Epistemology: Peirce, Frege, and Wittgenstein

Chapter IV — Comparative Metaphysics
Chapter 14. Gnoseology — Perceiving and Knowing: Peirce, Wittgenstein, and Gestalttheorie
Chapter 15. Ontology — Transcendentals of or Without Being Peirce Versus Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 16. Cosmology — Chaos and Chance Within Order and Continuity: Peirce Between Plato and Darwin
Chapter 17. Theology — The Reality of God: Peirce's Triune God and the Church's Trinity

Conclusion —Peirce: A Lateral View

Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum

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Peirce's semiotics and metaphysics compared to the thought of other leading philosophers.

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Peirce's semiotics and metaphysics compared to the thought of other leading philosophers.

About the Author

Gérard Deledalle (born 1921)holds the Doctorate in Philosophy from the Sorbonne. He is a Research Scholar at Columbia University, New York, and Attaché at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, he was also successively Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department of the universities of Tunis (1963-1972), Perpignan (1974-1990), and Libreville (1977-1981). He was appointed Director of the Instut Franco-Japonais in Tokyo from 1972 to 1974. He has been Visiting Professor in Japan (Waseda University), China (Beijing and Wuhan), the United States (Bloomington) and Canada (UQAM). He has written extensively on American philosophy, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey, pragmatism, and semiotics. He received in 1990 the Herbert W. Schneider Award "for distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of American philosophy." In 2001, he was appointed vice-president of the Charles S. Peirce Society.

Reviews

"These essays by Gerard Deledalle, one of Europe's leading critics of American thought, are the fruit of a life devoted to the study of American philosophy and semiotics. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to find common ground between the best of American semiotics and better-known European theories. Deledalle has done more than anyone else to introduce Peirce to European audiences, and now he sends Peirce home with some new flare." --Nathan Houser, Director, Peirce Edition Project