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At the second congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (Vienna, July 1979) I presented a number of “Proposals for a History of Semiotics.” I recommended that we intensify historical studies on the various theories of the sign and of semiosis over the centuries, first of all bec...

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Published inFrom the Tree to the Labyrinth p. 1
Main Author UMBERTO ECO
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Harvard University Press 25.02.2014
Subjects
Communications
Semiotic signs
Semiotics
Social sciences
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Summary:At the second congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (Vienna, July 1979) I presented a number of “Proposals for a History of Semiotics.” I recommended that we intensify historical studies on the various theories of the sign and of semiosis over the centuries, first of all because I considered it a necessary contribution to the history of philosophy as a whole, and secondly because I was convinced that to do semiotics today one needed to know how it was done yesterday, however much it might have been disguised as something else. And what better place to begin than
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