Postmodernity in philosophy. A Poinsot trilogy. Vol. 2 : Descartes & Poinsot : The crossroad of signs and ideas

Volume 1. Augustine & Poinsot *The Protosemiotic Development.* Volume 2. Descartes & Poinsot *The Crossroad of Signs and Ideas.* Volume 3. Peirce & Poinsot *The Action of Signs from Nature to Ethics.* "Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and John Poinsot (1589-1644) were contemporaries who stood, unbeknownst to them, at a crossroads in the history of philosophy. While Poinsot's work on semiotics became unfashionable after his death, Descartes' theory of ideas carried modern philosophy down a different path that proved to be a dead end. In Descartes & Poinsot, John Deely contends that semiotics can lead us beyond the rationalist trap of modernity. This innovative volume reveals that Poinsot's forgotten philosophies provide the missing link between the ancients and the postmodern."--BOOK JACKET Cenoscopy and ideoscopy The turn to ideoscopy Nothing is certain The way of ideas Nominalism versus realism The interplay of objects in thought and things in the world Sensation cenoscopically considered The semiotics of sensation The semiosic structure of the sensory manifold Semiopsis beyond perception Descartes and Poinsot : retrospect and prospect.