Mar 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Realism and Individualism
Subtitle: Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism
Series Title: Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie 55
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bsp.55
Author: Mateusz W. Oleksy
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027269010 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 110.00
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Hardback: ISBN: 9789027214652 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
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Abstract:
Realism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce’s early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely extends or refines new arguments in support of Scholastic Realism without questioning its basic assumptions. The book presents a critical overview of Peirce’s views on modern nominalism and offers a novel approach to the social-anthropological underpinnings of his realism, especially Pragmatic Realism vis à vis the individualist tendencies in modern thought.
The book is of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, especially students of American pragmatism, anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, as well as to anyone interested in Charles S. Peirce, Duns Scotus, Ockham, and generally to semioticians, social scientists, and sociologists.
Mar 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 256
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.256
Editor: Marta Dynel
Editor: Jan Chovanec
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268945 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027268945 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
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Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256614 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
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Abstract:
This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public
media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer
exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal
communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce
new theoretical extensions to participation formats, while others present case
studies in various discourse domains spanning public and private genres.
Adopting the perspective of the pragmatics of interaction, these contributions
discuss data ranging from public, mass-mediated and quasi-authentic texts,
fully staged and scripted textual productions, to authentic, non-scripted
private messages and comments, both of a permanent and ephemeral nature. The
analyses include news interviews, online sports reporting, sitcoms, comedy
shows, stand-up comedies, drama series, institutional and personal blogs,
tweets, follow-up YouTube video commentaries, and Facebook status updates. All
the authors emphasize the role of context and pay attention to how meaning is
constructed by participants in interactions in increasingly complex
participation frameworks existing in traditional as well as novel
technologically mediated interactions.
Mar 12
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhbook publication
Title: Semiotics of Happiness
Subtitle: Rhetorical Beginnings of a Public Problem
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/semiotics-of-happiness-9781472523716/
Author: Ashley Frawley
Electronic: ISBN: 9781472524201 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 74.99 Comment: PDF
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Hardback: ISBN: 9781472523716 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 75.00
Abstract:
The Semiotics of Happiness examines the rise of ‘happiness’ (and its various satellite terminologies) as a social and political semiotic, exploring its origins in the US and subsequent spread into the UK and across the globe.
The research takes as its starting point the development of discussions about happiness in UK newspapers in which dedicated advocates began to claim that anew ‘science of happiness’ had been discovered and argued for social and political change on its behalf. Through an in-depth analysis of the written and visual rhetoric and subsequent activities of these influential ‘claims-makers’, Frawley argues that happiness became a serious political issue not because of a growing unhappiness in society nor a demand ‘on the ground’ for new knowledge about it, but rather because influential and dedicated ‘insiders’ took the issue on at a cultural moment when problems cast in emotional terms were particularly likely to make an impact.
Emerging from the analysis is the observation that, while apparently positive and light-hearted, the concern with happiness implicitly affirms a ‘vulnerability’ model of human functioning, encourages a morality of low expectations, and in spite of the radical language used to describe it, is ultimately conservative and ideally suited to an era of ‘no alternative’ (to capitalism).
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