Semiotics "today"
the twentieth-century founding and twenty-first-century prospects
pp. 29-113
in: International handbook of semiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2015Abstract
The present chapter undertakes to provide an overview of the twentieth century semiotic development, as well as to attempt a projection of the twenty-first century trajectory semiotics, is bound to follow in the transition (or transformation) from the modern Enlightenment intellectual culture between Descartes (1650††) and (1914†)Peirce to the truly postmodern intellectual culture within which the development of semiotics has proven to be the central positive force.
