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- catalog abstract "Evoking Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse, Horst Ruthrof brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding meanings as guaranteed by definitions, the author argues that linguistic expressions are schemata directing us more or less loosely toward the activation of nonlinguistic sign systems. Ruthrof draws up a heuristic hierarchy of discourses, with literary expression at the top, descending through communication-reduced reference and speech acts to formal logic and digital communication at the bottom. The book offers multiple perspectives from which to review traditional theories of meaning, working from a wide variety of theorists, including Peirce, Frege, Husserl, Derrida, Lyotard, Davidson, and Searle. In Ruthrof's analysis, Pandora and Occam illustrate the opposition between the suppressed rich materiality of culturally saturated discourse and the stark ideality of formal sign systems.".
- catalog contributor b3571770.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "Evoking Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse, Horst Ruthrof brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns. Instead of regarding meanings as guaranteed by definitions, the author argues that linguistic expressions are schemata directing us more or less loosely toward the activation of nonlinguistic sign systems. Ruthrof draws up a heuristic hierarchy of discourses, with literary expression at the top, descending through communication-reduced reference and speech acts to formal logic and digital communication at the bottom.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Pandora and Occam: Two Stories -- I. The Directionality of Meaning -- II. The Rape of Autumn or the Rich and Fuzzy Life of Meanings -- III. The Modalities of the "Kunstlerroman" -- IV. Literature and Husserl: A Critique of Noematic Meaning -- V. Meaning as Sense and Derrida's Critique of the Concept -- VI. The Limits of Langue -- VII. Phrases in Dispute: Toward a Semiotic Differend -- VIII. A Striptease of Meaning on the Ladder of Discourse -- IX. Hypocrisis or Reading as Feigning -- X. The Fictions of Political Discourse and the Politics of Reading -- Conclusion: Pandora, Occam, and the Post-Humanist Subject.".
- catalog description "The book offers multiple perspectives from which to review traditional theories of meaning, working from a wide variety of theorists, including Peirce, Frege, Husserl, Derrida, Lyotard, Davidson, and Searle. In Ruthrof's analysis, Pandora and Occam illustrate the opposition between the suppressed rich materiality of culturally saturated discourse and the stark ideality of formal sign systems.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 250 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Pandora and Occam.".
- catalog identifier "0253349958 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pandora and Occam.".
- catalog isPartOf "Advances in semiotics".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog relation "Pandora and Occam.".
- catalog subject "801/.4 20".
- catalog subject "Criticism.".
- catalog subject "Discourse analysis, Literary.".
- catalog subject "PN98.S46 R88 1992".
- catalog subject "Semiotics and literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Pandora and Occam: Two Stories -- I. The Directionality of Meaning -- II. The Rape of Autumn or the Rich and Fuzzy Life of Meanings -- III. The Modalities of the "Kunstlerroman" -- IV. Literature and Husserl: A Critique of Noematic Meaning -- V. Meaning as Sense and Derrida's Critique of the Concept -- VI. The Limits of Langue -- VII. Phrases in Dispute: Toward a Semiotic Differend -- VIII. A Striptease of Meaning on the Ladder of Discourse -- IX. Hypocrisis or Reading as Feigning -- X. The Fictions of Political Discourse and the Politics of Reading -- Conclusion: Pandora, Occam, and the Post-Humanist Subject.".
- catalog title "Pandora and Occam : on the limits of language and literature / Horst Ruthrof.".
- catalog type "text".