Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

ISBN-10:
0253336848
ISBN-13:
9780253336842
Pub. Date:
03/22/1993
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10:
0253336848
ISBN-13:
9780253336842
Pub. Date:
03/22/1993
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity

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Overview

"It's the first book which revisits Greek and Latin theories of signs from the point of view of a profound classical scholarship and a paramount knowledge of contemporary semiotics debates." —Umberto Eco

Available in English for the first time is Professor Manetti's brilliant study of the origin of semiotics and sign theory. He seeks to discover the common thread that runs through the classical world from the very beginning of human thought to the fourth century A.D. In the "classical" tradition he sees a concept of the sign which is significantly different from that currently in use.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253336842
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 03/22/1993
Series: Advances in Semiotics
Pages: 216
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

GIOVANNI MANETTI is a teacher and researcher in the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Bologna. CHRISTINE RICHARDSON is in the Department of Languages at the University of Bologna.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

One. Mesopotamian Divination

Two. Greek Divination

Three. Signs and Semiosic Processes in Greek Medincine

Four. Plato

Five. Language and Signs in Aristotle

Six. Theory of Language and Semiotics in the Stoic Philosophers

Seven. Inference and Language in Epicurus

Eight. Philodemus: De Signis

Nine. Latin Rhetoric

Ten. Augustine

Notes
Bibliography

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