Gérard Deledalle, "Charles S. Peirce, phénoménologue et sémioticien" [Book Review]
Abstract
If Peirce was a "backwoodsman" of semiotic, Deledalle is a pioneer in presenting Peirce to francophone readers. His new book aims at introducing them to a global reading of Peirce's thought according to three periods:nominalistic (1851-70), logico-mathematical and methodological (1870-87), and metaphysical (1887-1914). Given Peirce's writing output, to synthesize, systematize and periodize his works would have been a colossal endeavor. However, Deledalle limited himself to the "Collected Papers" and to an already existing periodization. But the decision not to take into account the available volumes of the chronological edition leads to certain distortions concerning the nature of semiotic. And the bibliography is rather sketchy.