Purely objective reality - Deely, John N. (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Frontmatter; Contents; Terminological Prenote; Praeludium Primum, or The Key Dilemma; Preamble on Objectivity; Chapter 1. The Problem of Objectivity; Chapter 2. Root of the Semiotic Resolution of the Problem of Objectivity; Chapter 3. Objectivity as a Branch on the Tree of Relations; Chapter 4. The FirstAppearance of Objectivity in Its Difference from Things; Chapter 5. The Source in Subjectivity of Relations of Apprehension; Chapter 6. The Sign -Arbitrariness or Historicity?; Chapter 7. The Social Construction of Reality; Chapter 8. What Difference Does It MakeWhat a Sign Is?
This volume solves the problem of the subjectivity/objectivity couplet, making an indispensable contribution both to semiotics and to philosophy. Foremost American philosopher, John Deely, offers the first sustained and theoretically consistent interrogation of the means by which human understanding of 'reality' will be instrumental in the survival - or destruction - of planet Earth