Intentionality and Semiotics: A Story of Mutual Fecundation as Told by John Deely

摘要

Postmodernity," he maintains, "begins at the moment that thinkers decide to take seriously the notion that communication is a part of reality, that intersubjectivity is something real, and not simply an approximation that isolated consciousnesses appear to achieve because the mechanism of their minds is the same, and like causes produce like effects. Since Deely is a man who takes communication and intersubjectivity to be parts of reality, he has written his monograph thematically to consider how communication, as a phenomenon, a reality in its own right, vindicates common sense against modern idealism.