Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier

by Silverman,Hugh J.

• ISBN13: 9780415919548
• ISBN10: 0415919541
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Cultural Semiosistraces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social. Understood semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers are inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. Cultural semiosis enters the spaces of everyday language, visuality, sexuality and symbolization. These original essays interpret and provide tools for the understanding of cultural studies within a philosophical framework. Contributors: M. Alison Arnett, Debra Bergoffen, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Adi Ophir, Francois Raffoul, Mark Roberts, Stephanie Sage, Hugh J. Silverman.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Hugh J. Silverman
I. Theorizing the Sign	23	(82)
Peter Carravetta
1. THE REASONS OF THE CODE: READING ECO'S A THEORY OF SEMIOTICS	23	(25)
Alessandro Carrera
2. CONSEQUENCES OF UNLIMITED SEMIOSIS: CARLO SINI'S METAPHYSICS OF THE SIGN AND SEMIOTICAL HERMENEUTICS	48	(15)
Francios Raffoul
3. LACAN AND THE EVENT OF THE SUBJECT	63	(20)
Kelly Oliver
4. TRACING THE SIGNIFIER BEHIND THE SCENES OF DESIRE: KRISTEVA'S CHALLENGE TO LACAN'S ANALYSIS	83	(22)
II. Cultural Signifiers	105	(76)
Stephanie John Sage
5. ELIMINATING THE DISTANCE: FROM BARTHES' ECRITURE-LECTURE TO ECRITURE-VUE	105	(24)
Mark Roberts
6. THE END(S) OF PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION: MERLEAU-PONTY AND LYOTARD	129	(11)
Debra B. Bergoffen
7. MOURNING, WOMAN, AND THE PHALLUS: LACAN'S HAMLET	140	(14)
M. Alison Arnett
8. A METAPHOR OF THE UNSPOKEN: KRISTEVA'S SEMIOTIC CHORA	154	(13)
Hugh J. Silverman
9. THE SIGN OF THE ROSE: FILMING ECO	167	(14)
III. The Limits of Semiosis	181
Julia Kristeva
10. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE IMAGINARY	181	(15)
John Llewelyn
11. APPROACHES TO SEMIOETHICS	196	(23)
Michael Naas
12. STUMPING THE SUN: TOWARD A POSTMETAPHORICS	219	(20)
Adi Ophir
13. THE CARTOGRAPHY OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER: FOUCAULT RECONSIDERED	239
Notes
Selective Bibliography
Notes on Contributors