From the Tree to the Labyrinth

Contents

Introduction

1 From the Tree to the Labyrinth

2 Metaphor as Knowledge: Aristotle’s Medieval (Mis)Fortunes

3 From Metaphor to Analogia Entis

4 The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies)

5 Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages

6 Jottings on Beatus of Liébana

7 Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah

8 The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts

9 Toward a History of Denotation

10 On Llull, Pico, and Llullism

11 The Language of the Austral Land

12 The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre

13 On the Silence of Kant

14 Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi)

15 The Threshold and the Infinite: Peirce and Primary Iconism

16 The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic

17 Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day

18 Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation

References

Index