Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense: Language, Perception, Technics

by Robert E. Innis

Book Overview

Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation--the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics). As we use them, we experience them subjectively as extensions of our bodily selves and objectively as instruments for accessing the world with which we interact. Emphasizing this bipolar nature of language and technics, understood as intertwined "forms of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271028394
• ISBN13: 9780271028392
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"