TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merrell,Floyd
TI  - Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes
T2  - Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication Series
SN  - 9781442679931
AV  - B840 .M477 1996 
U1  - 121/.68 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Semantics (Philosophy)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: Of Life and Signs -- 1 Self-referring Signs -- 2 A Vertiginous Whorl -- 3 Signs of Life -- 4 The Merry-go-round of Life -- 5 Order from Chaos: The Merry-go-round of Semiosis -- 6 The Turn of the Scew -- 7 The Life of Signs -- Chapter 2: As Ongoing Semiosis -- 1 Vicious or Virtuous Circle? -- 2 The Birth of Irreversibility -- 3 Emergent Signs -- 4 Semiosis and Autopoiesis -- 5 Congealed Mind and Sublimated Matter -- 6 A One-way Street during Rush Hour -- Chapter 3: The Time of the Mind-Sign -- 1 What Is 'Real'? -- 2 Signs That Sign Themselves -- 3 Facts, Figments, Fantasies -- 4 Time En Bloc? -- 5 The 'Imaginary' and the 'Real' from a Different Glance -- 6 'Dead Time' and Static Mind? -- 7 Or Beyond Reversibility? -- 8 And Somehow All There in One Fell Swoop? -- Chapter 4: A Pluralist Semiotic Universe -- 1 Time in All Directions Simultaneously? -- 2 The Eye ('I') Can't See Itself (as Its Own Icon) -- 3 Is 'Mind-stuff' Restless or Merely Listless? -- 4 Then What Is Semiotically 'Out There'? -- Chapter 5: Space-Time, and the Place of the Sign -- 1 Concerning the Fallacy of Misplaced Firstness -- 2 Enlightened Egomaniacs or Little Boolean Savages? -- 3 Ways of Umwelten -- 4 Our Universe by Any Stretch of the Imagination -- 5 Yet, at the Infinite Stretch It's All the Same -- 6 Linearity Gone Mad? -- 7 So on It Goes, and Where It Ends Nobody Knows -- Chapter 6: Assembly-Line Signs, and Beyond -- 1 On a Dissonant Note -- 2 Yet, Strange Consonances -- 3 A Touch of Contrapuntus -- 4 The Self and Its Conjurors: A Euphonious Blending -- 5 On Beyond: That Other Voice -- Chapter 7: Rhetoric, Syncopation, and Signs of Three -- 1 The Universe Split Asunder: Dissonance Anew -- 2 There's Security in Numbers -- 3 Simultaneously Bending Forward and Doubling Backward -- Chapter 8: Knowing Signs, Living Knowledge; 1 Becoming, but Never Arriving -- 2 The Discontinuity of Signs -- The Continuity of Their Becoming -- 3 Signs Subdividing into Themselves -- 4 Myriad Divisions, Untold Folds -- 5 The Language (Symbolic Description) of Life -- Chapter 9: Chance and Legacy -- 1 It's a Sign's World -- 2 The Many and the One Revisited -- 3 No Beginnings or Endings, Only Middles Somewhere in Between -- 4 Yet, the Tyranny of the Closed Book -- 5 And the Infinitely Malleable Text -- Chapter 10: For a Critique of the Autonomy of the Sign -- 1 Random Nomadic Divagations, Deterritorialized Contemplators -- 2 The 'Worm-line's' Ubiquity -- 3 'To Use Words but Rarely Is to Be Natural' -- APPENDIX -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
N2  - Following Sebeok, Merrell reminds us that `any and all investigation of nature and of the nature of signs and life must ultimately be semiotic in nature.'
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