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There is no such thing as rest. The world is always on the move. It is made of movement. We find ourselves always in the midst of it, in transformations under way. The basic category for understanding is activity – and only derivatively subject, object, rule, order. What is called for is an ‘activist’ philosophy based on these premises. The Principle of Unrest explores the contemporary implications of an activist philosophy, pivoting on the issue of movement. Movement is understood not simply in spatial terms but as qualitative transformation: becoming, emergence, event. Neoliberal capitalism’s special relation to movement is of central concern. Its powers of mobilization now descend to the emergent level of just-forming potential. This carries them beyond power-over to powers-to-bring-to-be, or what the book terms ‘ontopower’. It is necessary to track capitalist power throughout its expanding field of emergence in order to understand how counter-powers can resist its capture and rival it on its own immanent ground. At the emergent level, at the eventful first flush of their arising, counter-powers are always collective. This even applies to movements of thought. Thought in the making is collective expression. How can we think this transindividuality of thought? What practices can address it? How, politically, can we understand the concept of the event to emergently include events of thought? Only by attuning to the creative unrest always agitating at the infra-individual level, in direct connection with the transindividual level, bypassing the mid-level of what was traditionally taken for a sovereign subject: by embracing our ‘dividuality’.

Movement (Philosophy) --- Political science --- Economics --- Capitalism --- Experience. --- Neoliberalism. --- Philosophy. --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Reality --- Pragmatism --- Political philosophy --- activist philosophy --- activity --- mobilization --- unrest --- transformations --- movement --- neoliberal capitalism --- Charles Sanders Peirce --- Immanence --- Logic --- Speed dating --- Surplus value

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The major principles and systems of C. S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a 'Philosophy of Representation', his latter-day version of the traditional grammar, logic and rhetoric trivium. In this book, Tony Jappy traces the evolution of Peirce's Philosophy of Representation project and examines the sign systems which came to supersede it. Exploring the potential of the later sign-systems that Peirce scholars have hitherto been reluctant to engage with and extending Peirce's semiotic theory beyond the much canvassed systems of his Philosophy of Representation, this book will be essential reading for everyone working in the field of semiotics.

Representation (Philosophy) --- Semiotics. --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Peirce, Charles Sanders, --- Peirce, C. S. --- Pirs, Charlz S., --- Peirce, Charles Santiago Sanders, --- Pʻo-erh-ssu, --- Pʻo-erh-ssu, Chʻa-li-ssu, --- Purs, Charls, --- Пърс, Чарлс, --- Chaersi Sangdesi Piersi, --- 查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯, --- Languages --- Charles Sanders Peirce --- Interpretant --- Linguistic typology --- Logic --- Semiosis --- Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce --- Semiotics --- Sign (semiotics) --- Trichotomy (philosophy)

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Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning. Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think of building users, architecture as a practice, the practical demands of building, and utility. After all, Vitruvius placed firmness and delight in the company of utilitas amongst his demands on architecture. Peirce (pronounced 'purse') was a logician, and so many of his ideas are couched in terms of formal propositions and their limitations. His work appeals therefore to many architects grappling with the digital age, and references to his work cropped up in the Design Methods Movement that developed and grew from the 1950s. That movement sought to systematise the design process, contributing to the idea of the RIBA Plan of Work, computer-aided design, and various controversies about rendering the design process transparent and open to scrutiny. 0Peirce's commitment to logic led him to investigate the basic elements of logical statements, notably the element of the sign. His best-known contribution to design revolves around his intricate theory of semiotics, the science of signs. The study of semiotics divided around the 1980s between advocates of Peirce's semiotics, and the broader, more politically charged field of structuralism. The latter has held sway in architectural discourse since the 1980s. Why this happened and what we gain by reviving a Peircean semiotics is the task of this book.

Architecture --- 72.01 --- Peirce, Charles Sanders --- Architectuurtheorie ; invloed van Charles Sanders Peirce op architecten --- Philosophy --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Peirce, Charles Sanders, --- Peirce, C. S. --- Pirs, Charlz S., --- Peirce, Charles Santiago Sanders, --- Pʻo-erh-ssu, --- Pʻo-erh-ssu, Chʻa-li-ssu, --- Purs, Charls, --- Пърс, Чарлс, --- Chaersi Sangdesi Piersi, --- 查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯, --- Philosophie --- architectuurfilosofie

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Philosophy of language --- Pragmatics --- Peirce, Charles Sanders --- Categories (Philosophy) --- Categorieën (Filosofie) --- Catégories (Philosophie) --- Filosofie --- Logica --- Logique --- Peirce, C. --- Philosophie --- Pragmatism --- Pragmatisme --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Pierce, Charles Sanders, --- --Catégories --- --Categories (Philosophy) --- Peirce, Charles S --- 1 PEIRCE, CHARLES SANDERS --- Predicaments (Categories) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Logic --- Ontology --- Predicate (Logic) --- Filosofie. Psychologie--PEIRCE, CHARLES SANDERS --- Kant, Immanuel --- Categorieën (filosofie) --- Charles Sanders Peirce --- Immanuel Kant --- 1 PEIRCE, CHARLES SANDERS Filosofie. Psychologie--PEIRCE, CHARLES SANDERS --- Categories (Philosophy). --- Categorieën (filosofie). --- Charles Sanders Peirce. --- Immanuel Kant. --- Peirce, Charles Sanders, --- Kant, Immanuel, --- Peirce, C. S. --- Pirs, Charlz S., --- Peirce, Charles Santiago Sanders, --- Pʻo-erh-ssu, --- Pʻo-erh-ssu, Chʻa-li-ssu, --- Purs, Charls, --- Пърс, Чарлс, --- Kant, Emmanuel --- Kant, Emanuel --- Kant, Emanuele --- Chaersi Sangdesi Piersi, --- 查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯, --- Kant, I. --- Kānt, ʻAmmānūʼīl, --- Kant, Immanouel, --- Kant, Immanuil, --- Kʻantʻŭ, --- Kant, --- Kant, Emmanuel, --- Ḳanṭ, ʻImanuʼel, --- Kant, E., --- Kant, Emanuel, --- Cantơ, I., --- Kant, Emanuele, --- Kant, Im. --- קאנט --- קאנט, א. --- קאנט, עמנואל --- קאנט, עמנואל, --- קאנט, ע. --- קנט --- קנט, עמנואל --- קנט, עמנואל, --- كانت ، ايمانوئل --- كنت، إمانويل، --- カントイマニユエル, --- Kangde, --- 康德, --- Kanṭ, Īmānwīl, --- كانط، إيمانويل --- Kant, Manuel, --- Catégories --- Peirce, Charles Sanders, - 1839-1914 --- Pierce, Charles Sanders, 1839-1914

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"Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was among the most influential intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, a thinker whose pragmatist philosophy ranged effortlessly across literature, politics, history, and poetry. To today's wider public Rorty is best known as the philosopher who forewarned of the 2016 US presidential outcome almost two decades in advance when he presciently predicted that a portion of the electorate would "start looking for a strongman to vote for- someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots." Featuring four previously unpublished essays, the writings collected in this volume convey his other prognostications and warnings for contemporary America and the global order-all of which remain surprisingly relevant. What Can We Hope For? showcases Rorty's striking diagnoses of the rising challenges democracies face, at home and abroad, and his timely proposals for how to address them. Written for popular audiences, these essays speak to urgent debates about our collective future, including: the ever-widening economic gap in our societies; the indifference of the rich global north toward the hardships of the poor global south; the populism fueled by sadistic tendencies to stigmatize others based on race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; the lack of international political initiatives for tackling overpopulation and environmental devastation; and the twilight of social utopias. He urges us to put our faith in trade unions and universities, bottom-up social campaigns, and bold political visions that thwart ideological pieties. Admirably clear and always thought-provoking, these essays outline Rorty's strategies-more needful now than ever-for fostering social hope and building an inclusive global community of trust"--

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