Peirce’s more-than-human philosophy, its precursors, and its heirs

Winfried Nöth; Lucia Santaella

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Peirce’s more-than-human philosophy, its precursors, and its heirs

Cultural Science

Volume 14 (2022): Issue 1 (December 2022)

By: Winfried Nöth and Lucia Santaella

Open Access

|Jun 2024

Abstract

The paper discusses the more-than-human aspects of Charles S. Peirce’s semiotic philosophy, contextualizes it within the history of ideas (Aristotle, the Medievals, Montaigne, Descartes) and examines its syntony with and differences from 21^st century trends of cultural and philosophical studies (posthumanism, nonhuman studies, Object-Oriented-Ontology, and the more-than-human paradigm).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/csj-2022-0002 | Journal eISSN: 1836-0416

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Keywords:

Peirce,

nonhuman,

more-than-human,

culture,

nature,

human,

animal,

object-oriented

Related subjects:

Computer sciences,

Human-machine interaction,

Cultural studies,

Cultural theory,

General cultural theory,

Topics in cultural studies,

Human-animal studies,

Linguistics and semiotics,

Semiotics,

Biosemiotics,

Philosophy,

Philosophy of science,

Philosophy of the humanities and cultural sciences

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