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Mark, Image, Sign: A Semiotic Approach to S pinoza
Author(s) -
Vinciguerra Lorenzo
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2012.00523.x
Subject(s) - semiotics , anthropocentrism , semiosis , sign (mathematics) , reading (process) , doctrine , philosophy , epistemology , human being , aesthetics , linguistics , art , theology , mathematics , environmental ethics , mathematical analysis , humanity
Instead of reading S pinoza's account of the imagination in an anthropocentric way, as dependent on the traditional doctrine of human faculties, the author considers it as a consequence of his physics and cosmology. Knowledge by signs, as S pinoza calls imagination, has to be rooted in his theory of marks and images, and concerns all beings (human and non human) that are capable of marking and being marked by other bodies in the infinite semiosis of nature.