Wittgenstein & Semiotics

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70871-6
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Semiotics, Signs of the Times

Wittgenstein’s philosophy is directly related to the semiotic discipline to understand the signs, their processes, and signalling. Wittgenstein’s nervous system was a semiotic model of control and power to make choices. To examine this critical question, Wittgenstein & Semiotics discusses the cultural climate of Wittgenstein to follow (or not) the classics, Saussure and Peirce. His word-play reflects historically how modern society transfigured the disasters of two World Wars into belief and action to meet with Wittgenstein’s linguistic reaction. Wittgenstein’s polemical style reflected the Zeitgeist of a new structure of writing philosophy based on the special force of semiotics. By coding and decoding one message to another, Wittgenstein saw how the exchanges of signs are carried out to renew cultural society. His linguistic sign functions in direct speech to interpret the structure of signs into the signification to the readers. Wittgenstein’s use of semiotics contributed to the cultural technique of the growth of interdisciplinary fields in scholarly disciplines, both humanistic and scientific, which Wittgenstein’s “free” speech enjoys today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gorlée, Dinda L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

About the Contributors

1 Wittgenstein’s Labyrinth of Semiosic Paths Dinda L. Gorlée

2 The Semiotics of Philosophical Critique: Wittgenstein, Sraffa, and Saussure Jeffrey R. Di Leo

3 Mending Wittgenstein via Peirce: On the Aboutness of Language-Games Horst Ruthrof

4 Moreno’s Sign-Theory after Wittgenstein Paulo Oliviera

5 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations, with Rossi-Landi and Beyond Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio

6 Thirty Years of Scholarship on the Relations Between Wittgenstein and Peirce, 1992–2022 Jaime Nubiola

7 Common-Sense In between Wittgenstein and Peirce Cassiano Terra Rodrigues

Über Autor(innen)

Dinda L. Gorlée is semiotician of applied linguistics (Peirce, Jakobson, Wittgenstein) and translation theoretician. Her last academic function was Visiting Professor of Semiotics and Translation Theory at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and now works at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, Norway.