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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SIGN - CHRIS BARNHAM...

Our understanding of CS Peirce  and his semiotics  is largely influenced by a twentieth century
perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultural artifact  or as one that that 'distorts' 
in some way  our understanding of the empirical world. Such a perspective will always undermine
appreciation of Peirce as a philosopher who viewed signs as the very mechanisms that enable us
to understand reality through concept formation. The key to this repositioning of Peirce is to
place his work in the broad frame of Hegelian philosophy. This book evaluates  in detail  the
parallels that exist between Peircean and Hegelian thought  highlighting their convergences and
also the points at which Peirce departs from Hegel's position. It also considers the work of
Vygotsky on concept formation showing that both are  in fact  working within the same Hegelian
template. This book  therefore  contributes to our broader understanding of Peircean semiotics.
But by drawing in Vygotsky  under the same theoretical auspices  it demonstrates that Peirce
has much to offer contemporary educational learning theory.

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