TY - JOUR
T1 - Esthetic interpretants
T2 - Pragmaticism, semiotics, and the meaning of art
AU - Pietarinen, Ahti Veikko
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by the University of Helsinki "Excellence in Research Grant" (Peirce's Pragmatistic Philosophy and Its Applications, 2006—2008), and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. My thanks to the participants of the 2008 Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics and the 8 th Annual Conference of the China Association for Linguistics and Semiotic Studies for raising helpful comments and questions.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2009/9/1
Y1 - 2009/9/1
N2 - This paper studies Charles Peirce's theory of esthetics from the point of view of his pragmaticism and the theory of signs. Esthetics is shown to be a theory of habits of feeling, which requires the notion of an esthetic interpretant. An argument is presented which establishes that, beginning with Peirce's theory of signs, pragmaticism supplies esthetic meaning to the works of art.
AB - This paper studies Charles Peirce's theory of esthetics from the point of view of his pragmaticism and the theory of signs. Esthetics is shown to be a theory of habits of feeling, which requires the notion of an esthetic interpretant. An argument is presented which establishes that, beginning with Peirce's theory of signs, pragmaticism supplies esthetic meaning to the works of art.
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U2 - 10.1515/css-2009-0123
DO - 10.1515/css-2009-0123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84993956560
SN - 2198-9605
VL - 2
SP - 223
EP - 229
JO - Chinese Semiotic Studies
JF - Chinese Semiotic Studies
IS - 1
ER -