The structural human and semiotic animal: Between pride and humiliation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F23%3A10469236" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/23:10469236 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5C977M4Wip" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=5C977M4Wip</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0123" target="_blank" >10.1515/sem-2023-0123</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The structural human and semiotic animal: Between pride and humiliation
Original language description
The main theme of the article, which by genre falls into the area of semiotically influenced philosophy, is a reflection on the relationship between the human and the non-human, using two partial but parallel discourses. The first discourse is the perspective of general semiotics, which is defined in the article on the basis of two distinct forms of rationality that, in different guises, still intervene in debates about the nature of the humanities and social sciences today. The first form of this rationality is semiological, which can be classified under the encyclopaedic rubric of structuralism, and which has its main source of inspiration in general linguistics and its continuation in philosophical anti-humanism. The second perspective has its origins in Peirce's logicist theory of the sign and his pragmatist metaphysics, and opens up thinking about the sign, the human, and the non-human to a non-language-centric view of the world. Despite their demonstrable theoretical and methodological incompatibility, the present text treats them as incompatible but largely complementary perspectives. It is in their mutual exposition that one can see the moments in which the view of modern human as a semiological and semiotic animal takes shape. The text brings this fundamental and founding theoretical schism into focus by examining two images from post/modern art: Ted Chiang's "The Great Silence" and Jorge Luis Borges' "Averroës's Search."
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-17984S" target="_blank" >GA22-17984S: Focal images: Violence and Inhumanism in contemporary art and media culture</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Semiotica
ISSN
0037-1998
e-ISSN
1613-3692
Volume of the periodical
2023
Issue of the periodical within the volume
254
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
15-39
UT code for WoS article
001094973800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85175800212