Signs in the Dust: A Theory of Natural Culture and Cultural Nature

by Nathan Lyons

Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a new theory of nature and culture that resists this familiar picture of things. Through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, and John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas), it offers a semiotic analysis of human culture in both its anthropological breadth as an enterprise of creaturely sign-making, and its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019094126X
• ISBN13: 9780190941260
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Paperbackshop UK Import
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"