Peer Aage Brandt
Biographic Data
| ID | 353448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peer Aage Brandt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peer Aage |
| FAMILY NAME | Brandt |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDT P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7774-5033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
De la dynamique phrastique. Grammaire, chorématique et Théorie des Catastrophes
Nous proposons une modélisation dynamique, chorématique et topologique de la structuration phrastique et montrons que le sens grammatical relève d'un processus de complémentation qui rend plausible une conception compositionnelle et moins relativiste que celle d'une certaine linguistique cognitive, de la notion de construction. Notre approche montre mieux, nous l'espérons, comment le langage peut simuler la pensée et ainsi nous permettre de la pa…
La petite machine de la musique suivi de Le sens et le temps. Supplément sur le rythme
La pensée même est un flux rythmique, rythmé par la présence mentale successive des contenus conceptuels. La perception, d’autre part, c’est-à-dire la formation de percepts gestaltiques, constitue un autre flux rythmé par les périodes nécessaires à la formation amodale du « vécu ». Ces deux rythmes sont à la base des rythmes qui nous permettent de créer des expressions à rythme proprioceptif et liés à des contenus, devenus les signifiés de ces ex…
Saussure’s Prolegomena—Toward a Semiotics of the Mind
The study of language is based either on the word or on the sentence as basic units. Ferdinand de Saussure opted for the word; other linguists later preferred the sentence or chose to ignore the difference between word and sentence. Words, however, have extralinguistic functions related to the topologies of thought, the spontaneous geometrical imageries of meaningful mental figuration, as we know them from sign posts, from verbal descriptions, an…
The Garden
After giving some contextual information, we propose an analysis of music and meaning in the song “The Garden,” as performed by the rock group Einstürzende Neubauten in the official video from the 1996 release of the album Ende Neu . We present a semiotic blending model of the narrative content of the song and of its imagery, partly determined by the structure and character of the music. Finally, we add a view of the apocalyptic perspective of so…
Crises et mondes
Plan :ProtectionEcologie. Les espacesSémiotique
De la chorématique. Les dynamiques de l’espace vécu
Plan:Schématismes dynamiquesChorématique socialeChorématique de la villeAspect, temps, modeLa pensée topologique. Ontologie
Pragmatics and Semiotics
Meaning is determined by both immanent and transcendent semiotic structuring : it is both conceptual and contextual. The recursion of semiosis makes it possible to understand and theorize this open but non-chaotic relation between minimal, medial, and maximal sign structures and the experiential lifeworld that infuses social systems with meaning and lets cultural, semiosic, and mental content develop as a continuity. Semiotics and pragmatics are …
A propos de sémiotique, de mathématiques, de poésie et de musique
1. Quand, en quelles circonstances avez-vous rencontr Greimas ? Quelle a t votre impression
La dynamique énonciative de la subjectivité
l’activité psychique n’est rienqu’une suite de catastrophes...René Thom,Stabilité structurelle et morphogenèse 1. La subjectivité La subjectivité est comme un espace fermé auquel nous n’échapperons jamais. La condition subjective est évidemment angoissante quand on l’envisage ainsi, comme une sorte de cage. Nous sommes dedans. Toutefois, il nous est possible de la théoriser, comme si nous étions en dehors ; c’est la pensée qui est notre Houdini.1…
De la «sujétion», ou Crise de la sémiotique
Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe communiqué s'inscrit dans un cadre énonciatif, l'inter-subjectivité est présupposée dans la sémiosis, dont elle structure la relation déictique; mais la subjectivité telle quelle, qui relève de la psychologie cognitive et de la phénoménologie, tant existentielle que formelle, est-elle toujours à considérer comme une entité appartenant au domaine du sens et de la s…
Diagrams and mental figuration
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagramm…
The Meaning and Madness of Money
In this paper, I propose an overall model of the semantic and semiotic functions of money and capital forms, based on an ecological view of human activity and a theory of the origin of money (coined precious metals). The meaning of money is replaced in a structured human perspective, and a critical discussion is outlined on the grounds of the material and capital flows and functions identified. The madness of money follows from the separation of …
D’où vient le sens? Remarques sur la sémio-phénoménologie de Greimas
Greimas’ structural semantics has always intrigued both linguists and philosophers of meaning, because of its ambiguous relations to language and to life-world phenomenology. These critical remarks attempt to clarify these questions by asking a simpler one: Where does meaning come from? Is language, discourse, or the human mind its base? My discussion examines the Paris School’s semio-phenomenology and its anchoring of meaning both in discourse a…
The World, Seen From Within (II) Sorts of Reality—A Semio-Cognitive Ontology and Phenomenology
This short essay discusses the conditions-and the general contours-of a viable ontology assigning a place to meaning in the architecture of the sorts of reality we acknowledge in the framework of a non-reductive realist philosophy (John Searle 1 , Barry Smith 2 ) compatible with both cognitive and semiotic approaches to the human world
The World, Seen From Within (III) On Mind and Matter, and the Founders of Rationalism
The aim of the following essay is to find a semantic core pattern, characterizing its ontology or metaphysics, in the form of thinking that emerged in the work of Descartes, spread and was modified through Spinoza and Leibniz, and became the panorama of science-oriented philosophies constituting the implicit or explicit underpinnings of contemporary thinking, research, and debate, especially in relation to the study of meaning and mind
The World, Seen From Within—Three Essays on Metaphysics and Meaning
These short essays reflect an exploration of a question that has intrigued me for quite some time, namely why-in modern and contemporary thinking and research-the reference to the founders of modern rationality, especially Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, is still so uncertain, timid, vague, even in scholarly contexts, and why the issue of ontological monism versus dualism keeps coming up in everyday debate involving matter, mind, consciousness, …
The World, Seen From Within (I) On the Enminded Body
Article The World, Seen From Within (I) On the Enminded Body: Spinoza, Descartes, and the Philosophy of Cognition was published on March 1, 2016 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 2, issue 1)
Deixis and the Ontology of Signs
This note aims at clarifying the relation holding or not holding between deixis and indexicality, and then elaborating a new model based on the Danish semiotic enunciation theory that could also account for reference. The 'mystery' in question is the mysterious fact that the intersubjective aspect of deixis has to constitute the referential anchoring of signified meaning in the extra-communicational world. The model proposed may lay the ground fo…
Linguistic Theory in the Framework of a Cognitive Semiotics
Article Linguistic Theory in the Framework of a Cognitive Semiotics: Language as Simulation and Linearization of Thought was published on March 1, 2015 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 1, issue 1)
What Is Culture?—A Grounding Question for Cognitive Semiotics
This article first outlines the principle of a cognitive semiotics, and in this framework presents a sign classification taking into consideration the crucial importance of time. It then offers a stratified interpretation of the Lotmanian concept of semiosphere, and continues with a study of the contradiction holding between cultural and socio-functional meanings. This leads to an analysis of ethnic passions and ethnic identity, and finally to a …
Der semiotische Aufbau der Welt, o el escándalo de la estructura que no es una
Der semiotische Aufbau der Welt, o el escándalo de la estructura que no es una Per Aage Brandt
Mental spaces and cognitive semantics
Per Aage Brandt
KULTURREALISME
From etymology to pragmatics
The Computer as Medium
Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature and theatre to bear on computers and discusses the communicative and organizational nature of computer networks within a historical perspective. The book consists of three parts. The first part characterizes the semio…
Mental spaces and cognitive semantics
Hvad er et museum? En semiotisk undersøkelse
What is a museum?The paper presents a contrastive analysis of the concept of Museum, and isolates its components: a collection of Objects, a collective Receiver, a historical Sender, a stationary Institution housing the collection and staging the Collection, a professional Staff responsible for research on the objects and retrieval of objects according to a selective Definition of the collection from reference to the historical sender, and finall…
The Meaning and Madness of Money
In this paper, I propose an overall model of the semantic and semiotic functions of money and capital forms, based on an ecological view of human activity and a theory of the origin of money (coined precious metals). The meaning of money is replaced in a structured human perspective, and a critical discussion is outlined on the grounds of the material and capital flows and functions identified. The madness of money follows from the separation of …
From etymology to pragmatics
Hvad er et museum? En semiotisk undersøkelse
What is a museum?The paper presents a contrastive analysis of the concept of Museum, and isolates its components: a collection of Objects, a collective Receiver, a historical Sender, a stationary Institution housing the collection and staging the Collection, a professional Staff responsible for research on the objects and retrieval of objects according to a selective Definition of the collection from reference to the historical sender, and finall…
The white-haired generator
Fortælling og sproghandling
H.J.L. Jensen: “Christianity is not a ‘great narrative’. A structural note on a typology of universal narratives” and P. Aa. Brandt: “Narrative and linguistic event. Comments on H.J.L. Jensen’s structural note”.Jean-François Lyotard has recently focused on the demise of the “great narratives”. But what is the nature of these narratives? Jensen’s note establishes an inventory of 8 types of “universal narratives” based on three axes: A) fall vs. er…
Le signe et ses sémiotiques
Agonistique et analyse dynamique catastrophiste du modal et de l'aspectuel
Article Agonistique et analyse dynamique catastrophiste du modal et de l'aspectuel: Quelques remarques sur la linguistique cognitive de L. Talmy was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal Semiotica (volume 77, issue 1-3)
Genese og diegese - et problem i den almene narratologi
The author proposes a structural distinction between the petits récits and the grands récits (according to Lyotard), between binary and trivial narrativity, on one hand, and bifurcational and fatal narrativity, on the other: reversibility vs. irreversibility. The ontological implications of the two types are distinct, and philosophy should be aware of this categorical difference; narrative theology and “theo-semiotics” in general must do it, if t…
The sources of meaning
The Computer as Medium
Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature and theatre to bear on computers and discusses the communicative and organizational nature of computer networks within a historical perspective. The book consists of three parts. The first part characterizes the semio…
From etymology to pragmatics
Per Aage Brandt
KULTURREALISME
Der semiotische Aufbau der Welt, o el escándalo de la estructura que no es una
Der semiotische Aufbau der Welt, o el escándalo de la estructura que no es una Per Aage Brandt
Mental spaces and cognitive semantics
Linguistic Theory in the Framework of a Cognitive Semiotics
Article Linguistic Theory in the Framework of a Cognitive Semiotics: Language as Simulation and Linearization of Thought was published on March 1, 2015 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 1, issue 1)
What Is Culture?—A Grounding Question for Cognitive Semiotics
This article first outlines the principle of a cognitive semiotics, and in this framework presents a sign classification taking into consideration the crucial importance of time. It then offers a stratified interpretation of the Lotmanian concept of semiosphere, and continues with a study of the contradiction holding between cultural and socio-functional meanings. This leads to an analysis of ethnic passions and ethnic identity, and finally to a …
The World, Seen From Within (II) Sorts of Reality—A Semio-Cognitive Ontology and Phenomenology
This short essay discusses the conditions-and the general contours-of a viable ontology assigning a place to meaning in the architecture of the sorts of reality we acknowledge in the framework of a non-reductive realist philosophy (John Searle 1 , Barry Smith 2 ) compatible with both cognitive and semiotic approaches to the human world
The World, Seen From Within (III) On Mind and Matter, and the Founders of Rationalism
The aim of the following essay is to find a semantic core pattern, characterizing its ontology or metaphysics, in the form of thinking that emerged in the work of Descartes, spread and was modified through Spinoza and Leibniz, and became the panorama of science-oriented philosophies constituting the implicit or explicit underpinnings of contemporary thinking, research, and debate, especially in relation to the study of meaning and mind
The World, Seen From Within—Three Essays on Metaphysics and Meaning
These short essays reflect an exploration of a question that has intrigued me for quite some time, namely why-in modern and contemporary thinking and research-the reference to the founders of modern rationality, especially Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, is still so uncertain, timid, vague, even in scholarly contexts, and why the issue of ontological monism versus dualism keeps coming up in everyday debate involving matter, mind, consciousness, …
The World, Seen From Within (I) On the Enminded Body
Article The World, Seen From Within (I) On the Enminded Body: Spinoza, Descartes, and the Philosophy of Cognition was published on March 1, 2016 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 2, issue 1)
Deixis and the Ontology of Signs
This note aims at clarifying the relation holding or not holding between deixis and indexicality, and then elaborating a new model based on the Danish semiotic enunciation theory that could also account for reference. The 'mystery' in question is the mysterious fact that the intersubjective aspect of deixis has to constitute the referential anchoring of signified meaning in the extra-communicational world. The model proposed may lay the ground fo…
The Meaning and Madness of Money
In this paper, I propose an overall model of the semantic and semiotic functions of money and capital forms, based on an ecological view of human activity and a theory of the origin of money (coined precious metals). The meaning of money is replaced in a structured human perspective, and a critical discussion is outlined on the grounds of the material and capital flows and functions identified. The madness of money follows from the separation of …
D’où vient le sens? Remarques sur la sémio-phénoménologie de Greimas
Greimas’ structural semantics has always intrigued both linguists and philosophers of meaning, because of its ambiguous relations to language and to life-world phenomenology. These critical remarks attempt to clarify these questions by asking a simpler one: Where does meaning come from? Is language, discourse, or the human mind its base? My discussion examines the Paris School’s semio-phenomenology and its anchoring of meaning both in discourse a…
Diagrams and mental figuration
We all intuitively know what a diagram is, and still it is surprisingly difficult to describe it as a semiotic function or type. In this article, we present four groups of hypotheses in view of a clarification. We hypothesize: (1) That diagrams are signs of a distinct type, unknown to classical semiotics; (2) That the elementary graphs of a diagram are all derived from lines and points in topological mental spaces. The mind applies these diagramm…
La dynamique énonciative de la subjectivité
l’activité psychique n’est rienqu’une suite de catastrophes...René Thom,Stabilité structurelle et morphogenèse 1. La subjectivité La subjectivité est comme un espace fermé auquel nous n’échapperons jamais. La condition subjective est évidemment angoissante quand on l’envisage ainsi, comme une sorte de cage. Nous sommes dedans. Toutefois, il nous est possible de la théoriser, comme si nous étions en dehors ; c’est la pensée qui est notre Houdini.1…
De la «sujétion», ou Crise de la sémiotique
Est-ce que la sémiotique peut théoriser la subjectivité? Etant donné que tout signe communiqué s'inscrit dans un cadre énonciatif, l'inter-subjectivité est présupposée dans la sémiosis, dont elle structure la relation déictique; mais la subjectivité telle quelle, qui relève de la psychologie cognitive et de la phénoménologie, tant existentielle que formelle, est-elle toujours à considérer comme une entité appartenant au domaine du sens et de la s…
Crises et mondes
Plan :ProtectionEcologie. Les espacesSémiotique
Philosophy (26 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Humanities (10 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (9 works) · Semiotics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works)