Ostentation of the Subject is a practice that is asserting itself
ever more in today's world. Consequently, criticism by
philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists has
been to little effect, considering that they are not immune to such
practices themselves. The question of subjectivity concerns the
close and the distant, the self and the other, the other from self
and the other of self. It is thus connected to the question of the
sign. It calls for a semiotic approach because the self is itself a
sign; its very own relation with itself is a relation among signs.
This book commits to developing a critique of subjectivity in terms
of the "material" that the self is made of, that is, the material
of signs. Susan Petrilli highlights the scholarship of Charles
Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Mary Boole, Jacques
Derrida, Michael Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Claude Levi-Strauss,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Morris, Thomas Sebeok, Thomas Szasz,
and Victoria Welby. Included are American and European theories and
theorists, evidencing the relationships interconnecting American,
Italian, French, and German scholarship. Petrilli covers topics
from identity issues that are part of semiotic views, to the
corporeal self as well as responsibility, reason, and freedom. Her
book should be read by philosophers, semioticians, and other social
scientists.
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