Overview
Who are we to suppose we are capable of comprehending the world of which we are a part, and what is the world to suppose it can be understood by us, miniscule and insignificant spatiotemporal warps contained within it?"" This provocative question opens Floyd Merrell's study of post modernism and the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, part of the author's ongoing effort to understand our contemporary cultural and intellectual environment. Merrell's specific focus in this interdisciplinary study is the modernism/postmodernism dichotomy and Peirce's precocious realization that the world does not lend itself to the simplistic binarism of modernist thought. In Merrell's examination of postmodern phenomena, the reader is taken through various facets of the cognitive sciences, philosophy of science, mathematics, and literary theory. Throughout this work, Merrell is scrupulously aware that we are participants within, not detached spectators of, our signs. We understand them while we interact with them, during which process we, and our signs as well, invariably undergo change.
Full Product Details
Author: Floyd Merrell
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Imprint: Purdue University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.785kg
ISBN: 9781557530554
ISBN 10: 1557530556
Pages: 374
Publication Date: 30 June 1995
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Throughout this work, Merrell is scrupulously aware that we are participants within, not detached spectators of, our signs. We understand them while we interact with them, during which process we, and our signs as well, invariably undergo change. -- (08/20/2018) Merrell's many outstanding books, notably including Semiosis in the Postmodern Age, are indispensable to the understanding of the essence of sign processes and how they affect you and me, here and now. --Thomas A. Sebeok (08/15/2018) Merrell's understanding of the Peircean paradigm offers a most promising alternative to both modernist and postmodernist thought. --Irmengard Rauch (08/09/2018)
Merrell's understanding of the Peircean paradigm offers a most promising alternative to both modernist and postmodernist thought. --Irmengard Rauch (08/09/2018)
Author Information
Floyd Merrell is the author of eight books, including Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes; Sign, Textuality, World; and Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the New Physics, as well as numerous articles on semiotics, literary theory, and Hispanic literature.
