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Signs grow : semiosis and life processes / Floyd Merrell

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto studies in semioticsDescription: xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0802007783
  • 9780802007780
  • 0802071422 (pbk.)
  • 9780802071422 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Signs grow.; Online version:: Signs grow.DDC classification:
  • 121/.68 21
LOC classification:
  • B840 .M48 1996
Contents:
Ch. 1. Of Life and Signs. 1. Self-referring Signs. 2. A Vertiginous Whorl. 3. Signs of Life. 4. The Merry-go-round of Life. 5. Order from Chaos: The Merry-go-round of Semiosis. 6. The Turn of the Scew. 7. The Life of Signs -- Ch. 2. As Ongoing Semiosis. 1. Vicious or Virtuous Circle? 2. The Birth of Irreversibility. 3. Emergent Signs. 4. Semiosis and Autopoiesis. 5. Congealed Mind and Sublimated Matter. 6. A One-way Street during Rush Hour -- Ch. 3. The Time of the Mind-Sign. 1. What Is 'Real'? 2. Signs That Sign Themselves. 3. Facts, Figments, Fantasies. 4. Time En Bloc? 5. The 'Imaginary' and the 'Real' from a Different Glance. 6. 'Dead Time' and Static Mind? 7. Or Beyond Reversibility? 8. And Somehow All There in One Fell Swoop? -- Ch. 4. A Pluralist Semiotic Universe. 1. Time in All Directions Simultaneously? 2. The Eye ('I') Can't See Itself (as Its Own Icon). 3. Is 'Mind-stuff' Restless or Merely Listless? 4. Then What Is Semiotically 'Out There'?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-341) and index

Ch. 1. Of Life and Signs. 1. Self-referring Signs. 2. A Vertiginous Whorl. 3. Signs of Life. 4. The Merry-go-round of Life. 5. Order from Chaos: The Merry-go-round of Semiosis. 6. The Turn of the Scew. 7. The Life of Signs -- Ch. 2. As Ongoing Semiosis. 1. Vicious or Virtuous Circle? 2. The Birth of Irreversibility. 3. Emergent Signs. 4. Semiosis and Autopoiesis. 5. Congealed Mind and Sublimated Matter. 6. A One-way Street during Rush Hour -- Ch. 3. The Time of the Mind-Sign. 1. What Is 'Real'? 2. Signs That Sign Themselves. 3. Facts, Figments, Fantasies. 4. Time En Bloc? 5. The 'Imaginary' and the 'Real' from a Different Glance. 6. 'Dead Time' and Static Mind? 7. Or Beyond Reversibility? 8. And Somehow All There in One Fell Swoop? -- Ch. 4. A Pluralist Semiotic Universe. 1. Time in All Directions Simultaneously? 2. The Eye ('I') Can't See Itself (as Its Own Icon). 3. Is 'Mind-stuff' Restless or Merely Listless? 4. Then What Is Semiotically 'Out There'?

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