1st Edition

The Self as a Sign, the World, and the Other Living Semiotics

By Susan Petrilli Copyright 2013
347 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

347 Pages
by Routledge

Ostentation of the Subject is a practice that is asserting itself ever more in today's world. Consequently, criticism by philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists has been to little effect, considering that they are not immune to such practices themselves. The question of subjectivity concerns the close and the distant, the self and the other, the other from self and the... Read more
1: The Sign “Self ” and Its Interpretations; 2: A Terminological and Conceptual Intermezzo; 3: The Inner-Outer Illusion; 4: The Self as Opening to the Other; 5: Self, Other, and Values; 6: The Self in Language and Communication; 7: Critique of Identity: For an Extracommunitarian Self; 8: Self, Freedom, and the Word’s Otherness

Biography

Susan Petrilli