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Sign, Method and the Sacred
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Sign, Method and the Sacred

by Jason Cronbach Van Boom, Thomas-Andreas Põder
August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
12h 9m
English
De Gruyter
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PART II: Applications: Texts and case studies

The semiotics of likeness: Identity, verisimilitude and falsity in Augustine

Remo Gramigna

A first version of this study was originally published in Gramigna (2020).

1 Introduction

The goal of this study is to make the case for a semiotics of images. To do so, it presents an account of the theory of the image and likeness on the basis of the interpretation of a selection of Augustine’s works, with a view to its implications to the domain of semiotics. The paper is divided into two parts. Whilst the first part explores Book II of the Soliloquia, the second dwells on the concepts of image, equality and likeness in the De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus, in the De Genesi ad ...

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