Intentionality and semiotics [Texte imprimé] : a story of mutual fecundation / as told by John Deely

Index

Bibliogr. p. 205-230

Preface: Modernity's passing -- "Intentionality" -- Gilson and Aquinas -- Immateriality and intentionality: the Latin development, Jacques Maritain, and the contemporary scene -- Specifying forms, impressed and expressed: terms without equivalence in modern philosophy -- The problem of thing and object -- Specifying forms, objects, and things: the problem of actual intelligibility -- "Abstraction" -- "Agere sequitur esse": the role of relation in the order of being -- Revolutionizing the understanding of subjectivity as ens absolutum -- Ens reale as a sub-division of ens primum cognitum -- Esse intentionale again -- "Passions of the soul": sign-vehicles as subjective factors versus signs as suprasubjective relations -- Ontological relation and esse intentionale -- The knowledge of essences -- A truth more complex and interesting.