Between Signs and Non-Signs

Author

Ferruccio Rossi-Landi | University of Bari

Editor

Susan Petrilli | University of Bari

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The Italian philosopher F. Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) conducted pioneering work in the philosophy of language. His research is characterised by a critique of language and ideology in relation to sign production processes and the process of social reproduction. Between Signs and Non-Signs is a collection of 14 articles by Rossi-Landi written between 1952 and 1984 and gives an overview of his contribution to the philosophy of language and his critique of Charles Morris, Wittgenstein, Bachtin, and his Italian contemporaries. It is in fact a project initiated by the author and now posthumously completed by the editor, with a complete bibliography of Rossi-Landi's extensive work. Susan Petrilli's Introduction gives a fresh view of the importance of Rossi-Landi's work to modern critical theory.

[Critical Theory, 10] 1992. xxix, 322 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ct.10

Table of Contents

Introduction

Susan Petrilli | p. ix

Notes | p. xxiii

References | p. xxvi

Sidelights

Ferruccio Rossi-Landi | p. 1

I. Signs and Masters in Semiotic History

1. A Fragment in the History of Italian Semiotics | p. 7

Premise | p. 7

1.1 Communication in the History of Ideas
1.2 Flour from My Own Mill

References | p. 15

2. Signs about a Master of Signs | p. 17

2.1 A Personal Premise
2.2 Remarks about This Selection
2.3 Semiotics and Philosophy
2.4 At the Threshold of “Social Practice” in FTS
2.5 Semiotics as a Biological Science in SLB
2.6 Sign-behavior vs. Behavior-as-communication
2.7 Sign-vehicles, Signifiants, and Signs
2.8 Meaning and the Three Dimensions
2.9 Summary and Conclusions
2.10 Writings by Charles Morris

Notes | p. 51

References | p. 54

3. On some Post-Morrisian Problems | p. 59

3.1 Introduction
3.2 Semiotics and Philosophy
3.3 Signs and Values
3.4 Charles Morris and Social Practice
3.5 Semiosis and Meaning
3.6 Behavior and Communication
3.7 Behaving and “Moving About”
3.8 Conclusion

References | p. 83

4. Wittgenstein, Old and New | p. 87

4.1 Foreword
4.2 Wittgenstein's Iceberg
4.3 Wittgenstein and Semiotics
4.4 Ideas for a Common Approach to Marx, Freud, and Wittgenstein
4.5 Wittgenstein and Alienation

References | p. 106

II. Signs as Cognitive and Evaluative Instruments

5. Toward an Analysis of Appraisive Signs in Esthetics | p. 111

5.1 Morris's Behavioral Approach
5.2 Draft of an Operational Approach to Esthetic Values

Notes | p. 126

References | p. 128

6. On Absurdity | p. 131

Head Note | p. 131

6.1 “Category Mistakes” and the Reductio Ad Absurdum According to Linguistic Philosophy
6.2 Ryle's Procedure
6.3 General Weakness of the Appeal to Absurdity
6.4 Various Types of Absurdity, from “Linguistic” to “Real”
6.5 Absurdity and Logical Types

Notes | p. 153

References | p. 154

7. On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences | p. 157

7.1 Some Cases of Paired Terms
7.2 Instances of Overlapping Categories
7.3 A Hint at the Dialectic of Essence and Phenomena

Note | p. 168

References | p. 168

III. Signs, Linguistic Alienation and Social Reproduction

8. Introduction to Semiosis and Social Reproduction | p. 171

8.1 Foreword and Outline
8.2 Does Semiotics Exist?
8.3 Social Reproduction in General
8.4 Social Reproduction vs. Reality
8.5 Three Complementary Approaches

9. Articulations in Verbal and Objectual Sign Systems | p. 189

Foreword | p. 189

9.1 Artefacts and Work
9.2 Homology of Production
9.3 Plurality of Articulations

10. Sign Systems and Social Reproduction | p. 233

10.1 Social Reproduction as the Principle of All Things
10.2 The Articulations of Social Reproduction
10.3 Sign Systems in Social Reproduction

Notes | p. 251

References | p. 251

11. Ideas for the Study of Linguistic Alienation | p. 253

11.1 Introduction
11.2 Linguistic Capital, Constant
11.3 Linguistic Capital, Variable
11.4 Total Linguistic Capital
11.5 Linguistic Exploitation
11.6 Linguistic Consumerism

Notes | p. 265

References | p. 266

IV. Signs and Material Reality

12. Signs and Bodies | p. 271

Notes | p. 276

13. Ideas for a Manifesto of Materialistic Semiotics | p. 277

14. Toward a Theory of Sign Residues | p. 281

14.1 Introduction: Sign Systems and Social Reproduction
14.2 The Typology of Signs as a Function of Social Reproduction
14.3 The Totality “Sign,” and “Sign Residues”
14.4 Signs as Mediating between the Material and the Social

Writings by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi | p. 301

Index Auctorum | p. 311

Index Rerum | p. 317

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