Purely Objective Reality

John Deely

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Purely Objective Reality

John Deely

Volume 4 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781934078099

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In his 'Letter on Humanism' of 1947, Heidegger declared that the subject/object opposition and the terminology that accrues to it had still not been properly addressed in the history of philosophy, and he awaited a proper disquisition that resolved the problem. To date, that has not been provided. This volume explains and solves the prevailing problems in the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, in the process making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. This book shows that what is thought to be 'objective' in the commonplace use of the term is demonstrably different from what objectivity entails when it is revealed by semiotic analysis. It demonstrates in its exegesis of the 'objective' that human existence is frequently governed by examples of a 'purely objective reality' – a fiction which nevertheless perfuses, is perfused by, and guides experience. The ontology of the sign can be mind-dependent or mind-independent, just as the status of relation can be as legitimate on its own terms whether it is found in ens rationis or in ens reale. The difference in the awareness of human animals consists in this very contextualization that Deely's writings in general have made so evident: the ability to identify signs as sign relations, and the ability to enact relations on a mind-dependent basis. Purely Objective Reality offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality' will be instrumental in the survival – or destruction – of planet Earth.

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John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
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Part I: What Objective Reality Is and How It Is Possible
Terminological Prenote Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Praeludium Primum, or The Key Dilemma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Preamble on Objectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 1. The Problem of Objectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
Chapter 2. Root of the Semiotic Resolution of the Problem of Objectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 3. Objectivity as a Branch on the Tree of Relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 4. The FirstAppearance of Objectivity in Its Difference from Things Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Chapter 5. The Source in Subjectivity of Relations of Apprehension Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Chapter 6. The Sign –Arbitrariness or Historicity? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Chapter 7. The Social Construction of Reality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Part II: Background to the Text
Chapter 8. What Difference Does It MakeWhat a Sign Is? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 9. Why Intersubjectivity Is Not Enough Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 10. TheAmazing History of Sign Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Researchers of Semiotics, Philosophy
Pages
- Main content: 217
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
Keywords: Semiotics; Philosophy

eBook

Published: September 4, 2009
ISBN: 9781934078099

Hardcover

Published: September 16, 2009
ISBN: 9781934078075

Paperback

Published: September 16, 2011
ISBN: 9781934078082