Materialistic Semiotics and Social Reality: A European School for World Peace

It is therefore of great interest to a transversal audience, including those engaged in anthropology, communication studies, cultural studies, ethics, identity studies, ideology, peace studies, political economics, sociology, and translation theory, among numerous other fields. This book features a series of essays by six authors, four of which now classics, in the field of philosophy of language and semiotics, and significantly edited and added to by the volume editor. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign theory able to investigate how things work, their sense, and their meaning. The expanding global world is our social reality, supported and generated by signs, verbal and nonverbal. This book explains an expression that circulates in everyday language: ‘materialism’. Misunderstandings and disagreements are abundant regarding its use and meaning, even in special languages – that of politics or other sciences concerned with the historical-social reality. In order to clear up these misunderstandings and disagreements, this collection outlines a materialistic approach to problems relevant to signs and society, contemporary and historical, building towards a scientifically based materialistic semiotics. It is therefore of great interest to a broad audience, including those interested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy of language, communication studies, cultural studies and peace studies. This book presents writings in semiotics, linguistics, and the philosophy of language—significantly revised, retranslated, and rearranged for this edited volume—by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Adam Schaff, Augusto Ponzio, Massimo A. Bonfantini, Jeff Bernard, and Susan Petrilli. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign theory useful to investigate how things work, their sense, and meaning. The expanding global world is our social reality, supported and generated in, with and by signs, verbal and nonverbal. Interconnectivity in the sign network is a destiny for life, human and beyond. This book explains an expression that circulates in everyday language: ‘materialism’. Misunderstandings and disagreements abound regarding its use and meaning, even in special languages—like those of politics or other human sciences concerned with sociohistorical reality under its different aspects. In response, this collection outlines a materialistic approach to problems relevant to signs and society, both contemporary and historical, building towards a scientifically-based materialistic semiotics. It is therefore of great interest to a transversal audience, including those engaged in anthropology, communication studies, cultural studies, ethics, identity studies, ideology, peace studies, political economics, sociology, and translation theory, among numerous other fields.