TY - BOOK AU - Deely,John TI - Intentionality and semiotics: a story of mutual fecundation T2 - Approaches to postmodernity SN - 9781589661325 (h/c) U1 - 128 21E PY - 2007/// CY - Scranton PB - University of Scranton Press KW - Subjectivity KW - Intentionality (Philosophy) KW - Semiotics KW - Thomas KW - Aquinas, Saint KW - 1225?-1274 N1 - 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 ER -