Cultural semiosis : tracing the signifier /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, 1998.
Description:ix, 325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Continental philosophy. 6
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2960537
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Other authors / contributors:Silverman, Hugh J.
ISBN:0415919541
041591955X (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. Theorizing the Sign
  • 1. The Reasons of the Code: Reading Eco's a Theory of Semiotics
  • 2. Consequences of Unlimited Semiosis: Carlo Sinr's Metaphysics of the Sign and Semiotical Hermeneutics
  • 3. Lacan and the Event of the Subject
  • 4. Tracing the Signifier Behind the Scenes of Desire: Kristeva's Challenge to Lacan's Analysis
  • II. Cultural Signifiers
  • 5. Eliminating the Distance: from Barthes' Ecriture-Lecture to Ecriture-Vue
  • 6. The End(s) of Pictorial Representation: Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard
  • 7. Mourning, Woman, and the Phallus: Lacan's Hamlet
  • 8. A Metaphor of the Unspoken: Kristeva's Semiotic Chora
  • 9. The Sign of the Rose: Filming Eco
  • III. The Limits of Semiosis
  • 10. Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary
  • 11. Approaches to Semioethics
  • 12. Stumping the Sun: Toward a Postmetaphorics
  • 13. The Cartography of Knowledge and Power: Foucault Reconsidered