Peirce’s Theory of Inquiry as a Poetological Model: The Case of Literary Realism
Keywords:
semiotics, realism, science, the humanities, Peirce, Charles Sanders, Geppert, Hans VilmarAbstract
The article presents the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce as a bridge between the so-called hard sciences, on the one hand, and the humanities and the arts, on the other. By following Hans Vilmar Geppert’s theory of literary realism, that is, his Peircean “realist semiotics”, a scientific methodology can be traced in a poetological model. Geppert’s application of semiotics to literary realism and to general issues of communication offers two original insights: besides re-evaluating the historical realism of the nineteenth century, his theory of inquiry as the pragmaticist response to an immediate communicative crisis proposes a viable poetological model for today’s artistic needs as well, thereby making the dialogue between science and the humanities or arts possible once again.References
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