Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

by John Deely

Overview

The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442613010
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	10/13/2011
Series:	Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
Pages:	1054
Sales rank:	993,454
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 2.07(d)

About the Author

John Deely has been a Professor of Philosophy since 1976 at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and is now at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.

Editorial Reviews

'This magisterial conspectus, nothing less than John Deely's Summa semioticae, attends to the lofty sweep of Western philosophy from its foundations to the threshold of, and across to, the new millennium. In some sense, the book reminds me of Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, but, whereas Russell situated his chronicle within the context of political and social circumstances from the earliest times to the mid-1940s, Deely is bent on reconfiguring this same progression and beyond by inseparably intertwining it with the doctrine of the sign -- a story hitherto revealed only in fragmentary fashion. Deely's masterpiece is destined to become an indispensable work of reference for all students of semiotics.'

Thomas A. Sebeok, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Semiotics at Indiana University; and Honorary Fellow of Victoria College, University of Toronto

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