Maldenov I. Conceptualizing Metaphors: On Charles Peirce's Marginalia

London: Routledge, 2006 — 208 p. — ISBN10: 0415360471; ISBN13: 978-0415360470The enigmatic thought of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), considered by many to be one of the great philosophers of all time, involves inquiry not only into virtually all branches and sources of modern semiotics, physics, cognitive sciences, and mathematics, but also logic, which he understood to be the only useful approach to the riddle of reality. This book represents an attempt to outline an analytical method based on Charles Peirce’s least explored branch of philosophy, which is his evolutionary cosmology, and his notion that the universe is made of an ‘effete mind.’ The chief argument conceives of human discourse as a giant metaphor in regard to outside reality. The metaphors arise in our imagination as lightning-fast schemes for acting, speaking, or thinking. To illustrate this, each chapter will present a well-known metaphor and explain how it is unfolded and conceptualized according to the new method for revealing meaning. This original work will interest students and scholars in many fields including semiotics, linguistics and philosophy.The theoretical framework of the forsaken ideas
The categories, the ground and the silent effects
Unlimited semiosis and heteroglossia
The living mind and the effete mind
The iceberg and the crystal mind
The missing notion of subjectivity in Charles Peirce's philosophy
The unpredictable past
The quiet discourse
One-man-tango
How is meaning possible?Appendix