How to Make Our Signs Clear

Martin Švantner, Ph.D. (1982) is assistant professor at the Department of Electronic Culture and Semiotics, Charles University, Prague and at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Pilsen. His professional interest focuses on C. S. Peirce´s semiotic, theoretical rhetoric and history of semiotics.Vít Gvoždiak, Ph.D. (1983) is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, the Czech Academy of Sciences. His professional interest focuses on theoretical semiotics and comparative theory of signs.

• List of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionVít Gvoždiak and Martin Švantner2 On the Interconnection between Peirce’s Pragmatism and SemioticsEmil Višňovský3 Habits, Purposes and PragmatismHenrik Rydenfelt4 Logic of Relatives and Semiotics in Peirce. From the “Subject-Predicate” Inferential Structure to the Synechistic Topology of InterpretationClaudio Paolucci5 Reflections on the Presence of Peirce’s Category of Firstness in Schelling’ and Schopenhauer’s PhilosophyIvo Assad Ibri6 Charybdis of Semiotics and Scylla of Rhetoric. Peirce and Gorgias of Leontini on the Rhetoric of BeingMartin Švantner7 “When You Find a Crossroad, Take it”, Or, How to Do the Right Thing, Although Not for the Right ReasonsEmanuele Fadda8 Jakobson and Peirce: Deep Misunderstanding, or Creative Innovation?Vít Gvoždiak9 Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the Poststructuralist ContextMichaela Fišerová10 Gilles Deleuzeʼs Theory of Sign and Its Reflection of Peircean SemioticsMartin Charvát and Michal Karľa11 Charles Peirce and the Theory of DisembodimentStephanie SchneiderIndex