A prelude to a semioethics of dialogue

The aesthetics of enchantment in a new key

Bibliographic Data

ID22342008
AuthorsDeborah Eicher-Catt (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume7
Issue1
Pages100-119
Publication date2017-06-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Dialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2210-4119 • E-ISSN: 2210-4127
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ld.7.1.07eic
OpenAlexW2626489198
LanguageEN
References cited19

This paper interrogates the phenomenological experience of enchantment as a sign process. I argue that our ethical intentionality in the world is significantly enhanced when we understand how the aesthetics of enchantment conditions the very possibility of such an ethic as a semiotic phenomenological event of dialogue. First, I discuss a key problematic of contemporary life – our culture of distraction and its impact on our dialogic relations. Next, I outline my thematic – enchantment as consequence of sign actions, both in what I call its “inauthentic” and “authentic” forms. Third, I interpret each form and their impact on the ethics of dialogic relations. Finally, I contend that authentic enchantment, as a semiotic interpretant, signifies an “answering comprehension” or unique expression that resonates with the greater whole, the greater good – demonstrating what Susan Petrilli describes as a productive or pragmatic semioethic

Aesthetics · Comprehension · Conversation · Dialogic · Epistemology · Intentionality · Linguistics · Semiotics · Sociology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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