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…
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Semiotics and the Ethical Dimension of Life
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…

