{"product_id":"philosophy-of-the-sign-josef-simon-9780791424544","title":"Philosophy of the Sign","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresents a coherent philosophy of signs without postulating objects to which they refer or meanings which they express.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and semantical commitments. Deconstructing Plato, Frege, and Husserl, he accounts for signs without positing the existence either of meanings which they express or of things to which they refer. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand anything that is not a sign, so that one never gets to meanings without signs or things beyond signs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis confinement of signers and signees to a network of signitive relationships with no possibility of escape to a metasignitive \"reality\" characterizes Simon's philosophy of the sign. He draws on an extraordinarily wide range of sources, from Classical to contemporary, from modern to postmodern, from Anglo-American analytic to Continental European, for example, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Hamann, Herder, Kant, von Humboldt, Hegel, Nietzsche, Peirce, Frege, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Quine. A bonus is that this book provides insight into major developments in the contemporary German-speaking realm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josef Simon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791424545\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791424544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 5.98w x 0.65d","brand":"Josef Simon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096722809087,"sku":"9780791424544","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/philosophy-of-the-sign-josef-simon-9780791424544","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}