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SUMMARY:Workshop | Dynamics of Signs
DTSTART:20131024T073000Z
DTEND:20131024T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Folder\nThe main subject of the workshop is the ‘dynamic obj
 ect’ as developed  in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and its p
 ossible  application to the consortium’s studies on the ‘Dynamics in t
 he History  of Religions’. The workshop is based on and further develops
  research  results of the Focus Group ‘Dynamics and Stability’.\nRough
 ly speaking\, in order to develop a suitable notion of dynamics  respectiv
 ely stability for Religious Studies\, the workshop intends to  link sociol
 ogical system theory with its idea of the chain of  production\, generatin
 g self-referential meaning via the production from  products and thus perf
 orming what Luhmann calls a ‘dynamic stability’ to  concepts that have
  been subject of previous discussions in the Focus  Group ‘Dynamics and 
 Stability’ and the Focus Group ‘Attraction’. By  doing so\, we might
  come to a fusion of Peircean semiotics and system  theory with regard to 
 a descriptive language of religious phenomena. One  might argue that the r
 eligious attractor (as a main subject of the Focus Group ‘Attraction’)
  is a (what Peirce calls) dynamic object generating a chain of signs (of i
 mmediate objects)\,  that – while reaching for a full understanding of t
 he object though  never reaching ‘it’ – describes the process of att
 raction. The concept  of secret is the best illustration for this process.
  This  dynamic object might be fictional (it was introduced to grasp liter
 ary  fictions like Hamlet)\, but it ‘acts’ by generating interpretatio
 n.  This  is the stability of the chain of interpretation – not the  ob
 ject nor the interpretations are stable\, but their interrelation\, the  c
 hain as such\, which relates one interpretational product to one  another.
  It integrates the reflexive moment Luhmann points at into a  form of stab
 ility that bases and reacts on the instability of the flux  of time.
LOCATION:FNO 02/ 40-46
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/WS_dynamicsofsigns_de/
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