Materialistic Semiotics and Social Reality by Petrilli, Susan;

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This book presents writings in semiotics, linguistics, and the philosophy of language—significantly revised, retranslated, and rearranged for this edited volume—by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Adam Schaff, Augusto Ponzio, Massimo A. Bonfantini, Jeff Bernard, and Susan Petrilli. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign theory useful to investigate how things work, their sense, and meaning. The expanding global world is our social reality, supported and generated in, with and by signs, verbal and nonverbal. Interconnectivity in the sign network is a destiny for life, human and beyond. This book explains an expression that circulates in everyday language: ‘materialism’. Misunderstandings and disagreements abound regarding its use and meaning, even in special languages—like those of politics or other human sciences concerned with sociohistorical reality under its different aspects. In response, this collection outlines a materialistic approach to problems relevant to signs and society, both contemporary and historical, building towards a scientifically-based materialistic semiotics. It is therefore of great interest to a transversal audience, including those engaged in anthropology, communication studies, cultural studies, ethics, identity studies, ideology, peace studies, political economics, sociology, and translation theory, among numerous other fields.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction: A European School in Materialistic Semiotics. Its Rise, Development and Worldview (Susan Petrilli).- Part 1: Ferruccio Rossi-Landi.- 2 On the Semiotic Homology between Linguistics and Economics. Introducing Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (Susan Petrilli).- 3 Ideas for a Manifesto of Materialistic Semiotics (Ferruccio Rossi-Landi).- 4 Sign Systems and Social Reproduction (Ferruccio Rossi-Landi).- 5 Ideas for the Study of Linguistic Alienation (Ferruccio Rossi-Landi).- 6 Toward a Theory of Sign Residues (Ferruccio Rossi-Landi).- 7 Wittgenstein, Old and New (Ferruccio Rossi-Landi).- Part II: Adam Schaff.- 8 Semantics, Semiotics and Critique of Political Economy. Introducing Adam Schaff (Susan Petrilli, Augusto Ponzio).- 9 Marxist Dialectics and Social Revolution (Adam Schaff).- 10 Introduction to Semantics (Adam Schaff).- 11 A Critique of Generative Grammar and the Concept of Innate Ideas (Adam Schaff).- 12 The Pragmatic Function of Stereotypes (Adam Schaff).- Part III: Augusto Ponzio.- 13 The Dia-logic Materiality of Signs, Non-functionality, and Semioethics. Introducing Augusto Ponzio (Susan Petrilli).- 14 On Marxian Semiotics. A Critical Excursus through the Sign Sciences (Augusto Ponzio).- 15 Reflecting on Signs with Charles S. Peirce and Mikhail M. Bakhtin (Augusto Ponzio).- 16 The Power of Ideology and Communication in a Globalised World (Augusto Ponzio).- 17 Communication, Community and the Right to Non-functionality (Augusto Ponzio).- Part IV: Massimo A. Bonfantini.- 18 A Neo-Peircean Materialistic Orientation in Semiotics. Introducing Massimo A. Bonfantini (Susan Petrilli).- 19 On the Writings of Charles S. Peirce. An Ideal Dialogue (Massimo A. Bonfanini).- 20 Abduction, Innovation and History. Reading Peirce (Massimo A. Bonfanini).- 21 Innovation and Abduction (Massimo A. Bonfanini).- Part V: Jeff Bernard.- 22 Materialistic Semiotics for an Open Community. Introducing Jeff Bernard (Susan Petrilli).- 23 The Social Philosophy and Socio-Semiotics of Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (Jeff Bernard).- 24 Culture(s) – a Conceptual Analysis (Jeff Bernard).- 25 Ideology, Culture and Perception as Sign Work. Rossi-Landian Insights (Jeff Bernard).- Part VI: Susan Petrilli.- 26 For an Approach to Language and Social Relations in their Material Objectivity. Introducing Susan Petrilli (Augusto Ponzio).- 27 Meaning and Matter in Human Semiosis (Susan Petrilli).- 28 Modelling, Communication, and Critique of Ideology (Susan Petrilli).- 29 Social Reproduction and Language as Work and Modelling (Susan Petrilli).- 30 The Self in Language, Dialogism and Otherness (Susan Petrilli).- Index.