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Title

Peirce and value theory : on Peircian ethics and aesthetics / edited by Herman Parret.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Parret, Herman.
• Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress (1989 : Harvard University)

Description

xiii, 381 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial Congress (Harvard University, September 1989). The volume is devoted to themes within Peirce's value theory and offers a comprehensive view of less known aspects of his influential philosophy, in particular Peirce's work on ethics and aesthetics. The book is divided in four sections. Section I discusses the status of ethics as a normative science and its relation with logic; some applications are presented, e.g. in the field of bioethics. Section II investigates the specific position of Peircean aesthetics with regard to classical American philosophy, especially Buchler, to Husserlian phenomenology, and to European structuralism (Saussure, Jakobson). Section III contains papers on internal aspects of Peirce's aesthetics and its place in his thought. The final section presents applications of Peirce's aesthetic theory: analyses of visual art (mainly paintings), of literary texts and of musical meaning.

Series Statement

Semiotic crossroads, 0922-5072 ; v. 6

Uniform Title

Semiotic crossroads ; v. 6.

Alternative Title

On Peircian ethics and aesthetics

Subjects

• Peirce, Charles S (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914
• Aesthetics, Modern
• Ethics, Modern
• 1800-1899
• Peirce, Charles S (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 > Ethics > Congresses
• Peirce, Charles S (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 > Aesthetics > Congresses
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Waardetheorie
• Ethiek
• Esthetica
• Ethics
• Aesthetics
• Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century > Congresses
• Ethics, Modern > 19th century > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Papers originally presented at the Charles S. Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, Harvard University, Sept. 5-10, 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-371) and indexes.

Contents

Preface / Kenneth Laine Ketner ---- Introduction / Herman Parret ---- Part I. Peirce on Ethics. 1. Rendering the World more Reasonable: The Practical Significance of Peirce's Normative Science / John J. Stuhr --- 2. Peirce and Royce on Person -- New Directions for Ethical Theory / Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley --- 3. C.S. Peirce and Philosophical Ethics / John Michael Krois --- 4. A Peircean Account of Moral Judgments / Cheryl Misak --- 5. What Logic Can Learn from Ethics / Richard Smyth --- 6. Collaboration and Casuistry: A Peircean Pragmatic for the Clinical Setting / Mary B. Mahowald --- 7. Peircean Triads in the Work of J. Lacan: Desire and the Ethics of the Sign / Elisabeth Saporiti ---- Part II. Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of Philosophical Thought. 1. The Primacy of the Aesthetic in Peirce, and Classic American Philosophy / Victorino Tejera --- 2. Art and Interpretation: Peirce and Buchler on Aesthetic Meaning / Armen Marsoobian --- 3. Peirce and Husserl: Abduction, Apperception and Aesthetics / Angela Ales Bello --- 4. Peirce, Saussure and Jakobson's Aesthetic Function. Towards a Synthetic View of the Aesthetic Function / Irene Portis-Winner --- 5. Some Reflections on Peirce's Aesthetics from a Structuralist Point of View / Omar Calabrese ---- Part III. Peirce's Aesthetics in the Context of his Thought. 1. The Place of Peirce's 'Esthetic' in his Thought and in the Tradition of Aesthetics / Jeffrey Barnouw --- 2. Peircean Fragments on the Aesthetic Experience / Herman Parret --- 3. Aesthetic Experience in Charles S. Peirce: The Threshold / Pere Salabert --- 4. The Mediating Role of 'Esthetics' in Charles S. Peirce's Semiotics: Configurations and Space Relations / Roberta Kevelson --- 5. The Logic, Ethics and Aesthetics of Geometrical Construction / James W. Garrison ---- Part IV. Peirce's Aesthetics and its Applications. 1. Objects, Signs, and Works of Art. A Semiotic Study of Aesthesis / Per Aage Brandt --- 2. Representation and Intersemiosis / Svend Erik Larsen --- 3. Peirce and Literary Studies with Special Emphasis on the Theories of the Prague Linguistic Circle / Thomas G. Winner --- 4. Scientific Fiction and Literary Fiction / Marie Francoeur and Louis Francoeur --- 5. 'Origin' in the Peircean Interpretation of a Painting / Francoise Caruana --- 6. Can Peirce be Applied to Music? / Eero Tarasti --- 7. A Peircean Perspective on the Growth of Markedness and Musical Meaning / Robert S. Hatten.

ISBN

• 1556193408
• 9781556193408
• 9027219478
• 9789027219473

LCCN

93039339

OCLC

• ocm29254791
• 29254791
• SCSB-9481802

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library