Charles S. Peirce, 1839-1914: An Intellectual Biography

by Gérard Deledalle

This work is the intellectual biography of the greatest of American philosophers. Peirce was not only a pioneer in logic and the creator of a philosophical movement pragmatism he also proposed a phenomenological theory, quite different from that of Husserl, but equal in profundity; and long before Saussure, and in a totally different spirit, a semiotic theory whose present interest owes nothing to passing fashion and everything to its fecundity. Throughout...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556190824
• ISBN13: 9781556190827
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 123 Pages