Abstract
The book explores selected themes from the areas of logic, general theory of representation, theory of art, and social philosophy, interconnected by the authors' shared interest in the theory of sign in its diverse traditions, interpretations, and modifications. It consists of chapters investigating exegetically the genesis of Peirce's semiotic, polemic studies critically engaged with philosophical reception of Peirce's semiotic in other authors (J.
Derrida), and texts using the concept of sign in opening up other interpretative horizons and links: such as a post-semiological account of "frame" in aesthetics, marginalization of the subject in post-colonial thinking, or sign-construction of mental disorder. The book thus - by means of analysing "marginal" problems - offers insight into a wide array of possibilities which semiotic perspective may supply.