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John Deely - Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century - 9781442613010 - V9781442613010
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Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

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Description for Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Paperback. Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPDF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 257 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1914.

This book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in philosophy for the next fifty or so years. By making the theory of signs the dominant theme in Four Ages of Understanding, John Deely has produced a history of philosophy that is innovative, original, and complete. The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization".

Deely examines the whole movement of past developments in the history ... Read more

A magisterial general history of philosophy, Deely's book provides both a strong background to semiotics and a theoretical unity between philosophy's history and its immediate future. With Four Ages of Understanding Deely sets a new agenda for philosophy as a discipline entering the 21st century.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
Series
Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
Number of Pages
928
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442613010
SKU
V9781442613010
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About John Deely
John Deely has been a Professor of Philosophy since 1976 at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and is now at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.

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