The Philosophy of Gesture: Completing Pragmatists' Incomplete Revolution

Following In The Steps Of Classic Pragmatists, Especially C.s. Peirce, Giovanni Maddalena's The Philosophy Of Gesture Revolutionizes The Pattern Of Synthesis Through The Ideas Of Change And Continuity And Proposes 'gesture' As A New Tool For Synthesis. Defining Gesture As An Action With A Beginning And An End That Carries A Meaning, Maddalena Explains That It Is A Dense Blending Of All Kinds Of Phenomena-feelings And Vague Ideas, Actual Actions, Habits Of Actions (and Of Signs) Icons, Indexes, And Symbols. When The Blending Of Phenomena And Signs Is Densest, The Gesture Is 'complete,' And Its Power Of Introducing Something New Into Knowledge Is At Its Highest. Anti-kantianism And Pragmatist Characteristics -- Peirce's Incomplete Syntheic Turn -- A New Paradigm For Reasoning -- A New Tool: Complete Gesture -- Gestures And Creativity -- Figural And Narrative Identity -- Writing As Complete Gesture -- Gesture, Morality, Education -- Conclusions And Further Studies. Giovanni Maddalena. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [179]-188) And Index. Issued Also In Electronic Format.