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On the Past, Present, and Future of Semioethics A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli

By Susan Petrilli, Simon Levesque Copyright 2025
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship. Featuring a wide-ranging conversation between Petrilli and scholar Simon Levesque, the book makes the case for semioethics as a critical approach that can help us better understand important... Read more

Prologue 

1: Enter Thomas Sebeok

2: About Victoria Welby

3: With Augusto Ponzio

4: Critique and ideology

5: Semioethics

6: Philosophy and science

7: Humanism and responsibility

8: Social symptomatology

9: On the future of semiotics

Epilogue

References

Index

Biography

Susan Petrilli is Professor of Theory and Philosophy of Language at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy.

Simon Levesque is Lecturer in Semiotics and Literary Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada. He is Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal in semiotics Cygne noir.