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Indexes: Cultural Nature and Natural Culture
Indexes: Cultural Nature and Natural Culture
- Source :
- Rivista di Estetica, Vol 76, Pp 112-129 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Rosenberg & Sellier, 2021.
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Abstract
- Umberto Eco’s essential contribution to semiotics consisted in finding a theoretical equilibrium between deconstructive tendencies, aiming at presenting cultural habits as pure conventional but naturalized products, and motivational trends, claiming the natural fundament of constructed cultural habits. Fully comprehending and turning into analytical frame the concept of sign in Charles S. Peirce was instrumental to reach such equilibrium. In no other aspect of Umberto Eco’s semiotics it manifests itself with more evidence than in the characterization of indexes. The article seeks to propose a general theorization of their semiotic nature, starting from Umberto Eco’s interpretation of Peirce.
- Subjects :
- Indexicality
arbitrariness
motivation
Fine Arts
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English, French, Italian
- ISSN :
- 00356212 and 24215864
- Volume :
- 76
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Rivista di Estetica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.3e0aa07a2574fda9cce226f100af751
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.7699