semiotics & curriculum (excerpts) RE: [xmca] Colpietro on Peirce

From: Tony Whitson (twhitson@udel.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 14 2006 - 09:26:04 PST


For a journal special issue edited by Don Cunningham, I have just finished a
long paper that may be of interest to folks interested in this thread. I
have excerpted a few pages and posted them at:

http://www.udel.edu/soe/whitson/files/xmca/gum4xmca.pdf

(You may remember Don's call for proposals, and my earlier post on the
chewing gum item [there's something more on that in the full paper that's
not included in the excerpt here].)

Please note: This file contains pages excerpted from a 67-page manuscript
that has been submitted for publication, by a publisher who takes their
intellectual property rights quite seriously. Please do not distribute or
quote beyond discussion within the XMCA discussion group.

-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Andy Blunden
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:19 AM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: [xmca] Colpietro on Peirce

   Comrades and friends,
   I have been reading Vincent Colpietro's "Peirce's Approach to the Self".
   This book is so interesting that I felt I must have it to consult after I
   return it to the library, But it is out of print and the only copy on the
   secondhand market costs US$150 plus postage. So, I have scanned in the
   entire 150 pages. The file is 565k so those without broadband need not
   apply, but if you'd like a copy, I will send it to you,
   It is really only of value for those with an interest in the foundations
of
   psychology - Peirce lived over a century ago and was not a psychologist,
but
   for activity theorists the book is an amazing read.
   Here is the table of contents:

                      Introduction
                      Chapter One. Is Peirce's Theory of Signs Truly
General?
                      Chapter Two. Semiosis and Subjectivity
                      Chapter Three. The Relevance of Peirce's Semiotics to
                      Psychology
                      Chapter Four. Peirce's Account of the Self. A
                      Developmental Perspective
                      Chapter Five. Inwardness and Autonomy

   For Peirce, "semiosis" is "sign-activity". Semiosis goes on everywhere,
in
   nature as well as with mind, though semiosis does not exhaust a thing
which
   also has "being." Everything is a sign, but later he decides that a
"sign"
   does not "represent", it "mediates"; interpretation really means
"effect."
   Thought is a species of semiosis, and man, a species of sign, is in
thought,
   not thought in man (excuse the 19th century sexist word). In my search
for a
   definition of subjectivity, this is a real find. I am fairly new to
Peirce
   and enjoying him greatly.
   Andy

 Andy Blunden, on behalf of the Victorian Peace Network, Phone (+61) 03-9380
                                    9435
             Alexander Surmava's Tour - September/October 2006
        [1]http://ethicalpolitics.org[2]/alexander-surmava/index.htm

References

   1. http://ethicalpolitics.org/alexander-surmava/index.htm
   2. http://ethicalpolitics.org/alexander-surmava/index.htm
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