Signs, Intentionality, and Imaginability

Selected Papers

Horst Ruthrof (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

466 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-74125-6 (ISBN)

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The book traces the author’s intellectual history from his encounter with literature to his critique of the philosophy of language. With tools from Locke, Kant, Peirce, and especially Husserl, the author gradually identifies what grants natural language its power: imaginability.

This book contains essays by Horst Ruthrof, tracing the author’s intellectual history from his encounter with literature to his critique of the philosophy of language. If you have ever felt that our linguistic and philosophical approaches to language lack an explanation of what renders it so powerful, you share the author’s motivation for writing these essays.

With tools from Locke, Kant, Peirce, and especially Husserl, the author redefines natural language as “a set of social instructions for schematically imagining, and acting in, a world” and gradually identifies what grants natural language its power: imaginability.

Horst Ruthrof FAHA, Ph.D. (1969) Rhodes University, is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and English at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He has published over a hundred articles and seven books in literary theory, semiotics, and the philosophy of language.

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Original Publications

Introduction: from Literary Theory to the Critique of Language Philosophy

Part 1

Signs in Literary Theory

Introduction to Part 1

1 Reading the Signs of Literary Works

2 Signs in Translation

3 Motivated Signifieds: the Fourth Critique

4 The Role of Imaginability in Literary Semantics

Part 2

Intentionality in Peircean Semiotics

Introduction to Part 2

5 How to Get the Body Back into the Linguistic Sign

6 Intentionality as Sufficient Semiosis

7 Signs of Resemblance: Hypoiconicity as Intentionality

Part 3

Locke, Kant, Heidegger, Einstein and Freud

Introduction to Part 3

8 The Logos of Modernity: Vernunftspaltung

9 From Kant’s Monogram to Conceptual Blending

10 Locke: Linguistic Meaning as Indirectly Public

11 Missing Signs: Heidegger’s Forgetting of Perception

12 Signs of Irrationality: Einstein and Freud on Why War?

Part 4

Imaginable Signs in the Phenomenology of Language

Introduction to Part 4

13 Speculations on the Origins of Linguistic Signification

14 Knowing a Language: What Sort of Knowing Is It?

15 Perception or Imaginability: Which Has Primacy in Language?

16 On Sign Compulsion in Natural Language

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Semiotics, Signs of the Times ; 3
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-74125-9 / 9004741259
ISBN-13	978-90-04-74125-6 / 9789004741256
Zustand	Neuware