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Four Ages of Understanding - The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Four Ages of Understanding - The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
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This book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in
philosophy for the next fifty or so years. By making the theory of
signs the dominant theme in Four Ages of Understanding, John Deely
has produced a history of philosophy that is innovative, original,
and complete. 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". Deely examines the whole movement of
past developments in the history of philosophy in relation to the
emergence of contemporary semiotics as the defining moment of
Postmodernism. Beginning traditionally with the Pre-Socratic
thinkers of early Greece, Deely gives an account of the development
of the notion of signs and of the general philosophical problems
and themes which give that notion a context through four ages:
Ancient philosophy, covering initial Greek thought; the Latin age,
philosophy in European civilization from Augustine in the 4th
century to Poinsot in the 17th; the Modern period, beginning with
Descartes and Locke; and the Postmodern period, beginning with
Charles Sanders Peirce and continuing to the present. Reading the
complete history of philosophy in light of the theory of the sign
allows Deely to address the work of thinkers never before included
in a general history, and in particular to overcome the gap between
Ockham and Descartes which has characterized the standard
treatments heretofore. One of the essential features of the book is
the way in which it shows how the theme of signs opens a
perspective for seeing the Latin Age from its beginning with
Augustine to the work of Poinsot as an indigenous development and
organic unity under which all the standard themes of ontology and
epistemology find a new resolution and place. A magisterial general
history of philosophy, Deely's book provides both a strong
background to semiotics and a theoretical unity between
philosophy's history and its immediate future. With Four Ages of
Understanding Deely sets a new agenda for philosophy as a
discipline entering the 21st century.
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