On the Past, Present, and Future of Semioethics

A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-01505-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Language and Communication

This volume charts the origins, development, and future potential of semioethics through the work of Susan Petrilli, showcasing an extended dialogue with one of the eminent figures in semiotics scholarship.

Featuring a wide-ranging conversation between Petrilli and scholar Simon Levesque, the book makes the case for semioethics as a critical approach that can help us better understand important issues at stake in today’s world, such as precarity, social responsibility, and climate change, through the interplay of signs, meaning-making, and interpretation. The dialogue is organized around key chapters in Petrilli’s career, exploring the influences of such scholars as Peirce and Bakhtin, the collaborations with Sebeok and Eco, and the efforts in revitalizing the work of Victoria Welby. The book explores how these strands culminated in the creation of semioethics with Petrilli’s longtime collaborator, Augusto Ponzio, and looks ahead to new directions for the further study of the relation between signs and values, semiotics and axiology, and communication and ethics.

Highlighting the expansiveness of Petrilli’s body of work and the possibilities of semioethics in addressing key questions in contemporary social life for a better world, this volume will be of interest to scholars in semiotics, language and communication, philosophy of language, and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levesque, Simon

Petrilli, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

1: Enter Thomas Sebeok

2: About Victoria Welby

3: With Augusto Ponzio

4: Critique and ideology

5: Semioethics

6: Philosophy and science

7: Humanism and responsibility

8: Social symptomatology

9: On the future of semiotics

Epilogue

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Petrilli is Professor of Theory and Philosophy of Language at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy.

Simon Levesque is Lecturer in Semiotics and Literary Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada. He is Editor-in-chief of the scientific journal in semiotics Cygne noir.