Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier

by Hugh J. Silverman (Editor)

Overview

Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social. Understood semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers are inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. Cultural semiosis enters the spaces of everyday language, visuality, sexuality and symbolization. These original essays interpret and provide tools for the understanding of cultural studies within a philosophical framework. Contributors: M. Alison Arnett, Debra Bergoffen, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Adi Ophir, Francois Raffoul, Mark Roberts, Stephanie Sage, Hugh J. Silverman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415919548
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/13/1998
Series:	Continental Philosophy , #6
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hugh J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Textualities (1994) and Inscriptions (1987), both published by Routledge, and editor of numerous books including the Continental Philosophy Series.

Table of Contents

Hugh J. Silverman -- Introduction I. THEORIZING THE SIGN 1. Peter Carravetta -- The Reasons of the Code: Reading Eco's a Theory of Semiotics 2. Alessandro Carrera -- Consequences of Unlimited Semiosis: Carlo Sinr's Metaphysics of the Sign and Semiotical Hermeneutics 3. François Raffoul -- Lacan and the Event of the Subject 4. Kelly Oliver -- Tracing the Signifier Behind the Scenes of Desire: Kristeva's Challenge to Lacan's Analysis II CULTURAL SIGNIFIERS 5. Stephanie John Sage -- Eliminating the Distance: From Barthes' Écriture-Lecture to Écriture-Vue 6. Mark Roberts -- The End(s) of Pictorial Representation: Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard 7. Debra B. Bergoffen -- Mourning, Woman, and the Phallus: Lacan's Hamlet 8. M. Alison Arnett -- A Metaphor of the Unspoken: Kristeva's Semiotic Chora 9. Hugh J. Silverman -- The Sign of the Rose: Filming Eco III THE LIMITS OF SEMIOSIS 10. Julia Kristeva -- Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary 11. John Llewelyn -- Approaches to Semioethics 12. Michael Naas -- Stumping the Sun: Toward a Postmetaphorics 13. Adi Ophir -- The Cartography of Knowledge and Power: Foucault Reconsidered