Reflexionstheoretische Semiotik, Teil 1: Handlungstheorie
Strukturalsemantische Grammatik des Handelns
📕 E-BookThe original text of Johannes Heinrichs’ theory of action — in its first version of 1980. This first volume of the Reflexionstheoretische Semiotik (Reflection-Theoretical Semiotics) develops a philosophical theory of action of a kind that, according to its provocative starting thesis, had not existed until then.
Heinrichs’ basic idea: action, language, art and mysticism form the four great levels of reflection of human processes of meaning — building on one another, each integrating the previous one. This volume is devoted to the most fundamental level, action: it develops a reflexive concept of action (action as practical reflection) and from it a “periodic system” of the types of action — a complete typology of objective, intra-subjective, social and expressive action, from bodily doing through work and strategic action to sign-action, which passes over into language.
Who this volume is for
This is a work for specialists, collectors and Heinrichs philologists — the historical source text, not the most accessible presentation. Those who want to get to know the content of Heinrichs’ theory of action will find it in a modern, more detailed and updated form in his book Handlungen. Das periodische System der Handlungsarten (Actions: The Periodic System of Types of Action, 2007).
The appeal of this first edition lies elsewhere: in the origin. Here one reads Heinrichs’ thought in its early form, in the characteristic style of German academic philosophy of the late 1970s and 1980s. For the history of the work, a cornerstone; for anyone who wants to cite and trace the development, the source. The method of dialectical subsumption, which guides everything that follows, is practised here for the first time.
About this edition: Unlike the other volumes in this series, this is not a facsimile of the original print but a volume newly typeset from the author’s surviving manuscript. Pagination and page breaks are carried through, so that it can be cited by page.
Reflexivity Press · Collected Works vol. 5 · 192 pages · first edition 1980 (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn)
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- Year
- 2025
- Edition
- Johannes Heinrichs Edition
- Series
- Gesammelte Werke (Volume 5)
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- Copyright
Electronic original edition: This edition is page-identical with the first edition of 1980 (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn). Page numbers and typesetting match the original and can be cited without restriction. Only the front matter, the imprint and the author biography have been renewed for this Reflexivity Press edition.
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