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CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY VI CULTURAL SEMIOSIS Edited, with an Introduction, by Hugh J. Silverman |
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| Tracing
the cultural significance of the sign and, in particular, the signifier, this volume
explores the impact of semiotics / semiology upon a wide range of interdisciplinary
concerns, including art, literature, theater, film, psychoanalysis, linguistics, rhetoric,
philosophy, history and politics. Emphasizing the "producing" of signs, the
"signing" of cultural codes and the "enculturing" of language, the
contributors to this volume - writing in the continental tradition of philosophy and
theory - stress the role of semiosis rather than semiotics, the active over the objective,
and the ongoing production of meaning in cultural understanding. In the tradition of de Saussure and Peirce, CULTURAL SEMIOSIS: TRACING THE SIGNIFIER confronts contemporary issues facing the human sciences by examining the role and function of the signifier in various intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural practices. Highlighting semiosis as a theory and mode of communication (Eco), as semiological hermeneutics in post-metaphysical philosophy (Sini), as the subject in the signifying chain (Lacan), as the language of desire in psychoanalysis (Kristeva), as the production of codes in painting (Barthes), as the limiting of pictorial representation (Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard), as the displacement of the idea of women through the absence of mourning (Lacan's Hamlet), as the unspoken signification in the Chora (Kristeva), as the dissemination of naming through deferred identity (Eco on Film), as the functioning of the imaginary in the psychoanalytic event (Kristeva), as the ethical relation in the face-to-face encounter with the Other (Levinas), as the deconstructive play of tropes (Derrida), and as the spacing of knowledge and power in discursive practice (Foucault), this volume provides a unique contribution to the emerging field of cultural studies. |
CONTENTS
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Introduction
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Hugh J. Silverman
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I. Theorizing the Sign
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1. Peter Carravetta
THE REASONS OF THE CODE:
READING ECO'S A THEORY OF SEMIOTICS
2. Alessandro Carrera
CONSEQUENCES OF UNLIMITED SEMIOSIS:
CARLO SINI'S METAPHYSICS OF THE SIGN
AND SEMIOLOGICAL HERMENEUTICS
3. François Raffoul
LACAN AND THE EVENTUAL SUBJECT
4. Kelly Oliver
TRACING THE SIGNIFIER BEHIND THE SCENES OF DESIRE:
KRISTEVA'S CHALLENGE TO LACAN'S ANALYSIS
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II. Cultural Signifiers
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5. Stephanie Sage
ELIMINATING THE DISTANCE:
FROM BARTHES' ÉCRITURE-LECTURE TO ÉCRITURE-VUE
6. Mark Roberts
THE END(S) OF PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION:
MERLEAU-PONTY AND LYOTARD
7. Debra Bergoffen
MOURNING, WOMAN AND THE PHALLUS:
LACAN'S HAMLET
8. M. Alison Arnett
A METAPHOR OF THE UNSPOKEN:
KRISTEVA'S SEMIOTIC CHORA
9. Hugh J. Silverman
THE SIGN OF THE ROSE:
FILMING ECO
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III. Limits of Semiosis
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10. Julia Kristeva
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE IMAGINARY
11. John Llewelyn
APPROACHES TO SEMIOETHICS
12. Michael Naas
STUMPING THE SUN:
TOWARD A POSTMETAPHORICS
13. Adi Ophir
THE CARTOGRAPHY OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER:
FOUCAULT RECONSIDERED
Notes
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Selected Bibliography
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Contributors
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