{"product_id":"four-ages-of-understanding-9781442613010","title":"Four Ages of Understanding","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in philosophy for the next fifty or so years. By making the theory of signs the dominant theme in \u003cem\u003eFour Ages of Understanding\u003c\/em\u003e, John Deely has produced a history of philosophy that is innovative, original, and complete. The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, \u003cem\u003eFour Ages of Understanding\u003c\/em\u003e provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of \"globalization\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeely examines the whole movement of past developments in the history of philosophy in relation to the emergence of contemporary semiotics as the defining moment of Postmodernism. Beginning traditionally with the Pre-Socratic thinkers of early Greece, Deely gives an account of the development of the notion of signs and of the general philosophical problems and themes which give that notion a context through four ages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739212296535,"sku":"9781442613010","price":46.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/four-ages-of-understanding-9781442613010","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}