James Williams

Process Philosophy of Signs (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

We usually think of signs as fixed relations: a red light signifies 'Stop'. In his bold new book, James Williams argues that signs are processes: you see the red light and think 'should I stop?', triggering a creative response. Williams develops this new process philosophy of signs through a formal model , in contrast to earlier structuralist definitions. He draws on the philosophies of Deleuze and Whitehead, criticises earlier work on the sign in biology by Jakob von Uexkull, and connects to contemporary work on process in the philosophy of biology by John Dupre. The process model has wide applications in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and informs their critical debates with science. In defining the sign as essentially political, this radical definition of the sign opens up new possibilities for social and political critique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748695034
• Artikelnr.: 50217140

Autorenporträt

James Williams is Honorary Professor of Philosophy and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University. He has published widely on contemporary French philosophy and is currently working on a critique of the idea of extended mind from the point of view of process philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: The Process Sign
2. The Independent Life of Signs
3. Biology and the Design of Signs
4. Process Signs and the Process Philosophy of Biology
5. The Sign
6. The Process Sign, Structuralism and Semiology
7. The Process Sign After Deleuze and Whitehead
8. The Process Sign is Political
9. Conclusion
Notes
Index