Diagrammatology: An Investigation on the Borderlines of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics

Preface.- Introduction.- I. DIAGRAMS - PEIRCE AND HUSSERL.- 1 Let's Stick Together - Peirce's Metaphysics of the Continuum.- 2 The Physiology of Arguments - Peirce's Extreme Realism and the Continuum in his Theory of Signs.- 3 How to Learn More - An Apology for a Strong Concept of Iconicity.- 4 Moving Pictures of Thought - Diagrams as Centerpiece of a Peircean Epistemology.- 5 Everything is Transformed - Transformation in Semiotics.- 6 Categories and Diagrams - the Grasping of Ideal Objects in Husserl and Peirce.- 7 Mereology - Parts and Wholes in Phenomenology and Semiotics.- 8 Diagrammatical Reasoning and the Synthetic A Priori.- II. BIOSEMIOTICS, PICTURES, LITERATURE.- 9 Biosemiotics as Material and Formal Ontology.- 10 A Natural Symphony? - Actuality of von Uexküll's Bedeutungslehre.- 11 Man the Abstract Animal - Diagrams, Abstraction, and the Semiotic Missing Link.- 12 The Signifying Body - Making Sense of 'Embodiment'.- 13 Christ Levitating and the Vanishing Square - Diagrams in Picture Analysis.- 14 Into the Picture - Husserl's Picture Theories and Two Picture Types.- 15 Small Outline of a Theory of the Sketch.- 16 Who is Michael Wo-Ling Ptah-Hotep Jerolomon? - Literary interpretation as Thought Experiment.- 17 Five Types of Schematic Iconicity in the Literary Text - an Extension of the Ingardenian Viewpoint.- 18 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Espionage in Reality and Fiction: Regional Ontology and Iconicity.- Perspective.- APPENDIX - Peircean Continuity between Mathematics and Philosophy.- Bibliography.- Notes.- Index.