Materialistic Semiotics and Social Reality

A European School for World Peace

Susan Petrilli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XIX, 751 Seiten

2026
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-032-01641-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book features a series of essays by six authors, four of which now classics, in the field of philosophy of language and semiotics, and significantly edited and added to by the volume editor. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign theory able to investigate how things work, their sense, and their meaning. The expanding global world is our social reality, supported and generated by signs, verbal and nonverbal. This book explains an expression that circulates in everyday language: materialism . Misunderstandings and disagreements are abundant regarding its use and meaning, even in special languages that of politics or other sciences concerned with the historical-social reality. In order to clear up these misunderstandings and disagreements, this collection outlines a materialistic approach to problems relevant to signs and society, contemporary and historical, building towards a scientifically based materialistic semiotics. It is therefore of great interest to a broad audience, including those interested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy of language, communication studies, cultural studies and peace studies.

Autor

Susan Petrilli is a Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. She is the 7th Thomas Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America; a Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, Washington, D.C.; Vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (2002 2020); Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, South Australia; and honorary member of the Institute of Semiotics and Media Studies, Sichuan University, China. She is the author, editor, and translator of numerous publications, including books, articles, and essays that relate to her studies in philosophy of language, semiotics, and translation. She has contributed to the dissemination of works by Victoria Welby, Charles Peirce, Mikhail Bakhtin, Emmanuel Levinas, Adam Schaff, Thomas A. Sebeok, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Umberto Eco, and Augusto Ponzio. Petrilli also contributed monographs. Her most recent monographs include Signs, Language and Listening (2019); Significare, interpretare e intendere (2019); Senza ripari: Segni, differenze, estraneità (2021); Oltre il significato. La significs di Victoria Welby. Significatività e filosofia del linguaggio (2023); and On the Past, Present and Future of Semioethics. A Dialogue with Susan Petrilli by Simon Levesque (2025).

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 751 p. 11 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 155 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Biosemiotics • Cultural Studies • Gender Studies • Philosophy of Language • Political Sciences • Semiotics
• ISBN-10: 3-032-01641-X / 303201641X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-032-01641-6 / 9783032016416
• Zustand: Neuware