Sign and Semiotics
(2013) The Oxford guide to the historical reception of Augustine — ISBN: [9780199299164], p. 1250-1258, published
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- The text presents the theory of signs of Saint Augustine, and the influence of this theory after his death. The text is articulated into different parts, presenting the Augustine's influence on (implicit of explicit) semiotics and theories of signs from the early medieval age to the contemporary debates on signs and signification. Aug.’s conception of the sign has exerted a great deal of influence in the West, implicitly and explicitly, in instrumentalist and autonomous semiotics. The continual quotation of his works in treatises on sacraments, the presence of his ideas in discussions regarding language and hermeneutics, and the endless efforts that were made to comment on his definitions are evidence of his extensive influence on medieval thinkers. Aug.’s semiotics also greatly impacted reflections of seventeenth-century rationalists and Augustinians on signs and verbal language. Even so, modern thinkers generally do not tend to cite Aug. directly. Aug.’s semiotics became influential again in the twentieth century, owing to the development of contemporary linguistics and semiotics, although new roles were attributed to Aug.: that of an ancestor, a polemical objective, or an interesting object. As it concerns semiotics, the twentieth century seems to have been another century heavily influenced by Aug.
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Catellani, A. (2013). Sign and Semiotics. In Karla Pollmann ; Willemien Otten (eds.) (ed.), The Oxford guide to the historical reception of Augustine (p. p. 1250-1258). Oxford University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/257603