Abstract
This paper interrogates the phenomenological experience of enchantment as a sign process. I argue that our ethical intentionality in the world is significantly enhanced when we understand how the aesthetics of enchantment conditions the very possibility of such an ethic as a semiotic phenomenological event of dialogue. First, I discuss a key problematic of contemporary life-our culture of distraction and its impact on our dialogic relations. Next, I outline my thematic-enchantment as consequence of sign actions, both in what I call its "inauthentic" and "authentic" forms. Third, I interpret each form and their impact on the ethics of dialogic relations. Finally, I contend that authentic enchantment, as a semiotic interpretant, signifies an "answering comprehension" or unique expression that resonates with the greater whole, the greater good-demonstrating what Susan Petrilli describes as a productive or pragmatic semioethic.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 100-119 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Language and Dialogue |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2017 |
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- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Literature and Literary Theory
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A prelude to a semioethics of dialogue the aesthetics of enchantment in a new key. / Eicher-Catt, Deborah.
In: Language and Dialogue, Vol. 7, No. 1, 01.01.2017, p. 100-119.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AB - This paper interrogates the phenomenological experience of enchantment as a sign process. I argue that our ethical intentionality in the world is significantly enhanced when we understand how the aesthetics of enchantment conditions the very possibility of such an ethic as a semiotic phenomenological event of dialogue. First, I discuss a key problematic of contemporary life-our culture of distraction and its impact on our dialogic relations. Next, I outline my thematic-enchantment as consequence of sign actions, both in what I call its "inauthentic" and "authentic" forms. Third, I interpret each form and their impact on the ethics of dialogic relations. Finally, I contend that authentic enchantment, as a semiotic interpretant, signifies an "answering comprehension" or unique expression that resonates with the greater whole, the greater good-demonstrating what Susan Petrilli describes as a productive or pragmatic semioethic.
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