Gayle L. Ormiston

Transforming the hermeneutic context : from Nietzsche to Nancy

General Editor, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Stanford University Press) Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, New Nietzsche Studies, Southern Journal of Philosophy Member, Advisory Board, symplokē Editorial Consultant, Continental Philosophy Review, International Studies in Philosophy

Peirce's Categories: Structure of Semiotic

Recent literature concerning itself with the task of unraveling what seems, to some, to be contradictions, incongruities, and ambiguities in C. S. Peirces theory of signs, has afforded the intellectual community with an abundance of information. All of this material, no doubt, aids in the advancement of comprehending Peirces pioneering work in semiotics. Even with this recent proliferation of literature, getting a good grasp of Peirces intent is a remarkable feat of intellectual acumen. The problem is not so much with the research being done on Peircean semiotics, but more likely it is with Peircean semiotics itself. Peirce well recognized that the work he had been doing on the theory of signs was quite new, and that he was investigating areas of human existence in which little, if any, work had been done at all. (5.488) Now, a point that one may find quite beneficial in a project dealing with Peirces theory of signs is his own acknowledgement that work in semiotics is basic, vulgar, and innovative. Peirce shows the reader through his inquiry on semiotics. Undoubtedly this is a good point. Initially it allows one dealing with Peirce to go through the Collected Papers realizing that he was never too final about much of what he thought concerning semiotics. Even in places where certainty seems prominent, one comes to see that what is going on is an intellectual growth process — inquiry. Secondly, by following the growth process one is put in a better position to see with what type of footing Peirce started his work. Too often, given the very analytic character of inquirers, surface

From artifact to habitat : studies in the critical engagement of technology

Bringing together philosophy, literary criticism and textual theory, social and political theory, and the philosophy of language and cognitive science, this collection intends to establish an interpretive framework for exploring the ubiquity nd mediacy of technology.

From Marx's politics to Rorty's poetics: shifts in the critique of metaphysics

Sur la critique de la metaphysique de R.Rorty, son interpretation de Marx et les differents niveaux de la critique marxiste.

Already Not-Yet: Shoreline Fiction Metaphase

As poetic figure, the „shoreline“ presents the incomprehensible. As physical limit, the „shoreline“ presents the unfathomable. Am I not mixing metaphors here: forcing a rhetorical shift from figure to figure, image to image; confusing the domain of each; violating the line that separates fictive and physical, figurative and literal? Am I not engaged in „catechresis“?