The Semiotic Self

Contents
......Page 5
List of Figures and
Tables......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
Contents and Organization......Page 8
Author's Note......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 / The Politics of Identity in
American History......Page 15
The Founding Fathers and Faculty Psychology......Page 17
The Populist-Progressive Period and Classical
Pragmatism......Page 20
The Politics of Identity Today......Page 25
Neo-pragmatism and the Contemporary Politics
of Identity......Page 27
Conclusion......Page 30
The Position of Classical Pragmatism......Page 32
Retrospective to Prospective......Page 33
Sensation to Action......Page 34
Formal to Ordinary Language......Page 35
The Peirce-Mead Synthesis......Page 37
The Self as a Structure......Page 40
The Self-Structure as a Sign......Page 44
Concrete Objects and the Me......Page 46
Summary......Page 52
3 /
The Internal Conversation......Page 54
Illustrations of the Two Models......Page 55
Mead on the I-me Distinction......Page 56
The Me as the Past......Page 57
The Me as the Object......Page 58
Cognitive
Availability to the I......Page 59
Freedom vs Determinism in the Two Poles......Page 60
Relation to the Generalized Other......Page 61
The Peirce-Mead Contrast......Page 62
The Subject-Object Contrast......Page 63
Freedom and Determinism......Page 64
Relation to the Generalized Other......Page 65
Visitors......Page 68
The Unconscious......Page 69
Profiles of the Six Positions......Page 71
Content of the Conversation......Page 73
Research on the Conversation......Page 74
Two Research Applications......Page 82
Conclusion......Page 85
The Concept of Reflexivity......Page 88
Reflexivity in Intellectual History......Page 89
Reflexivity and Semiotics......Page 94
First and Second Orders......Page 97
Contrasting Views of the First Order......Page 103
Contrasting Views of the Second Order......Page 106
Current Uses of "Reflexivity"......Page 109
Advantages of the Reflexive Approach......Page 113
Summary......Page 116
5 /
Solidarity......Page 118
Durkheim and Solidarity......Page 119
The Self-Feeling Theorists......Page 124
Lacan and Solidarity......Page 131
Garfinkel, Wittgenstein
and the Solidarity of Procedure......Page 133
The Complementarity of Reflexivity and Solidarity......Page 134
Solidarity and the "Bindingness" of Reflexivity......Page 135
Hegel's Recognition and Solidarity......Page 139
The Origin of Self in the Primates......Page 140
Conclusion......Page 145
Summary......Page 146
6 /
The Self as a Level......Page 148
The Concept of Levels......Page 151
The Irreducible Self in Classical American Sociology......Page 154
The General Form of the Reductionist Argument......Page 160
The Founding......Page 163
Paradigm Disputes......Page 165
Current Levels Schemes......Page 167
Conclusion and Summary......Page 169
7 /
Upward Reduction......Page 171
Interactional Reductions of the Self......Page 180
Social Organizational Reductions of the Self......Page 189
Cultural Reductions of the Self......Page 199
Conclusion and Summary......Page 206
8 /
Downward Reduction......Page 209
Physicalist Epistemologies......Page 212
Artificial Intelligence......Page 214
Cybernetics......Page 216
Biologist Reduction......Page 219
History of Biological Reductions......Page 220
Molecular Biology......Page 221
Neurophysiology......Page 224
The Two Reductions Compared......Page 225
Summary and Conclusion......Page 228
The Three Triads......Page 229
Humans as Semiotic......Page 230
Humans as Dialogical......Page 232
The Internal Conversation......Page 234
Political Conclusions......Page 237
The Reality of Democratic Selves......Page 238
History and Culture of Democracy......Page 239
Equality and Freedom......Page 240
Equality,
Freedom and Inviolability......Page 241
The Peirce-Mead Model Today......Page 243
Bibliography......Page 246
Index......Page 260