Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the Poststructuralist Context

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angličtina

Original language name

Hopes of Derrida’s Reading? On Emergence of Peirce’s Texts in the Poststructuralist Context

Original language description

The chapter focuses on the problem of divergent (and eventually misleading) interpretations of Ch. S. Peirce’s texts presented by leading philosophical figures of the ‘70 and the ’80, such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Umberto Eco. The poststructuralist re-discovery of Peirce’s semiotics seemed to be a possible “cure” for the totalitarian “disease” of structuralism. Trying to find a way out of “dying” structuralism, the poststructuralists upraised Peirce to one of the main sources of their philosophical inspiration. Thanks to them, Peirce became an attractive, frequent and influential reading for various contemporary semioticians of photographic image, like Rosalind Krauss, Thierry de Duve, Henri Van Lier or Jean-Marie Schaeffer. According to the author’s claim, this situation gave birth to various poststructuralist interpretations that made up Peirce’s texts in order to fit it in poststructuralist context of thinking. On the example of Derrida’s reading of Peirce, the paper analysis poststructuralist intentions, expectations and hopes that shaped these interpretations. Finally, the author points out several distinctions between Peirce’s semiotics and semiotics of poststructuralism (that should be seen as eventual reasons for poststructuralist disappointment by Peirce’s metaphysics).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP14-14237P" target="_blank" >GP14-14237P: Deconstructing Signature : Metaphysical Dimension of Legal Mediation Politics</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

How to Make Our Signs Clear: C. S. Peirce and Semiotics

ISBN

9789004347786

Number of pages of the result

15

Pages from-to

119-133

Number of pages of the book

172

Publisher name

Brill

Place of publication

Leiden

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