Dalla scienza dei segni alla semiotica del testo. Il campo semiotico e le teorie della significazione
Susan Petrilli develops the notion of semioethics by grounding it in a specific conception of the human being: the human as semiotic animal. This expression, introduced in the volume Semiotic Animal co-authored with John Deely and Augusto Ponzio, designates a life form endowed not only with the capacity for semiosis, but with a distinctive aptitude for metasemiosis—the ability to reflect on…
The concept of semioethics, as Susan Petrilli explains, is not an invention detached from the history of semiotics. It is the point of arrival of a long theoretical trajectory that traverses the thought of Victoria Welby, Charles Peirce, Charles Morris, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Thomas Sebeok, Emmanuel Levinas, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Each, in different ways, has contributed to…
In Semiotics in Ethics and Caring, Susan Petrilli affirms that an ethical dimension is implicit in every form of human semiosis. Yet only recently has it become a consistent object of semiotic inquiry. Drawing on Thomas A. Sebeok’s notion of global semiotics, she argues that reconnecting semiotics with the life sciences allows the discipline to extend beyond…