John N. Deely Bücher

Realism for the 21st Century is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely—a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely’s development as a pragmatic realist, featuring his early essays on our relation to the world after Darwinism; crucial articles on logic, semiotics, and objectivity; overviews of philosophy after modernity; and a new essay on “purely objective reality.”

The book offers a critical bilingual edition of Poinsot's 1632 work on signs, enhanced with a new foreword and a correlation table linking it to the original Cursus Philosophicus. This influential synthesis of Latin thought, alongside Descartes, integrates philosophies of signs from Aristotle to Aquinas and Renaissance thinkers. Poinsot's contributions were pivotal in the 20th-century revival of Thomism, notably influencing Jacques Maritain. The depth of scholarship makes this work a significant resource for understanding the evolution of philosophical thought on signs.