The Natural History of the Sign: Peirce, Vygotsky and the Hegelian Model of Concept Formation

by Chris Barnham

Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultural artifact, or as one that that 'distorts', in some way, our understanding of the empirical world. Such a perspective will always undermine appreciation of Peirce as a philosopher who viewed signs as the very mechanisms that enable us to understand reality through concept formation. The key to this repositioning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111520943
• ISBN13: 9783111520940
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 255 Pages