Dalla scienza dei segni alla semiotica del testo. Il campo semiotico e le teorie della significazione
In Semiotics in Ethics and Caring, Susan Petrilli introduces what she calls a detotalizing method as a necessary epistemological and ethical stance for contemporary semiotics. This method emerges from a critique of totalizing models of knowledge and communication, particularly those associated with globalization, technicism, and disciplinary separatism. Against these tendencies, Petrilli proposes a mode of inquiry capable of accounting for…
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…