Charles S. Peirce's Philosophy of Signs

Gérard Deledalle (born 1921)holds the Doctorate in Philosophy from the Sorbonne. He is a Research Scholar at Columbia University, New York, and Attaché at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, he was also successively Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Philosophy Department of the universities of Tunis (1963-1972), Perpignan (1974-1990), and Libreville (1977-1981). He was appointed Director of the Instut Franco-Japonais in Tokyo from 1972 to 1974. He has been Visiting Professor in Japan (Waseda University), China (Beijing and Wuhan), the United States (Bloomington) and Canada (UQAM). He has written extensively on American philosophy, Charles S. Peirce, and John Dewey, pragmatism, and semiotics. He received in 1990 the Herbert W. Schneider Award "for distinguished contributions to the understanding and development of American philosophy." In 2001, he was appointed vice-president of the Charles S. Peirce Society.

• Preliminary Table of Contents:Introduction — Peirce Compared: Directions for UsePart I — Semeiotic as PhilosophyChapter 1. Peirce's New Philosophical ParadigmsChapter 2. Peirce's Philosophy of SemeioticChapter 3. Peirce's First Pragmatic Papers (1877-1878)The Postscriptum of 1893Part II — Semeiotic as SemioticsChapter 4. Sign: Semiosis and Representamen—Semiosis and TimeChapter 5. Sing: The Concept and Its Use—Reading as TranslationPart III — Comparative SemioticsChapter 6. Semiotics and Logic: A Reply to Jerzy PelcChapter 7. Semeiotic and Greek Logic: Peirce and PhilodemusChapter 8. Semeiotic and Significs: Peirce and Lady WelbyChapter 9. Semeiotic and Semiology: Peirce and SaussureChapter 10. Semeiotic and Semiotics: Peirce and MorrisChapter 11. Semeiotic and Linguistics: Peirce and JakobsonChapter 12. Semeiotic and Communication: Peirce and McLuhanChapter 13. Semeiotic and Epistemology: Peirce, Frege, and WittgensteinChapter IV — Comparative MetaphysicsChapter 14. Gnoseology — Perceiving and Knowing: Peirce, Wittgenstein, and GestalttheorieChapter 15. Ontology — Transcendentals of or Without Being Peirce Versus Aristotle and Thomas AquinasChapter 16. Cosmology — Chaos and Chance Within Order and Continuity: Peirce Between Plato and DarwinChapter 17. Theology — The Reality of God: Peirce's Triune God and the Church's TrinityConclusion —Peirce: A Lateral ViewBibliographyIndex NominumIndex Rerum

"This collection of essays, from 50 years of writing about C.S. Peirce by Gerard Deledalle (Columbia Univ.), offers critical investigations of topics in semiotics and helpful philosophical comparisons. Deledalle's efforts to introduce Peirce to a French and European audience are laudable, since Peirce is often difficult to comprehend in English. Also laudable is Deledalle's historic sense of Peirce's semiotic thinking, especially his chapter on the Greek origins of Peirce's terms. Because many of these essays are written as introductions to Peirce's thought, there is some repetition. The text also reflects the limited secondary resources on Peirce available in French. What Deledalle does exceptionally well, though, is bring Peirce's thought into historical and philosophical dialogue with Saussure, Wittgenstein, Frege, Morris, McLuhan, and the trinitarian doctrine of the Eastern and Western church. A very rich read for those who admire and understand Peirce's significance. Suitable for graduate students and researchers."—R. Ward, Georgetown College , 2001nov CHOICE.