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SUMMARY:Workshop | Dynamics of Signs
DTSTART:20131024T073000Z
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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 po
 ssible application to the consortium’s studies on the ‘Dynamics in the
  History of Religions’. The workshop is based on and further develops re
 search results of the Focus Group ‘Dynamics and Stability’.\nRoughly s
 peaking\, in order to develop a suitable notion of dynamics respectively s
 tability for Religious Studies\, the workshop intends to link sociological
  system theory with its idea of the chain of production\, generating self-
 referential meaning via the production from products and thus performing w
 hat Luhmann calls a ‘dynamic stability’ to concepts that have been sub
 ject 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 descripti
 ve language of religious phenomena. One might argue that the religious att
 ractor (as a main subject of the Focus Group ‘Attraction’) is a (what 
 Peirce calls) dynamic object generating a chain of signs (of immediate obj
 ects)\, that – while reaching for a full understanding of the object tho
 ugh never reaching ‘it’ – describes the process of attraction. The c
 oncept of secret is the best illustration for this process. This dynamic o
 bject might be fictional (it was introduced to grasp literary fictions lik
 e Hamlet)\, but it ‘acts’ by generating interpretation.  This is the 
 stability of the chain of interpretation – not the object nor the interp
 retations are stable\, but their interrelation\, the chain as such\, which
  relates one interpretational product to one another. It integrates the re
 flexive moment Luhmann points at into a form of stability that bases and r
 eacts on the instability of the flux of time.
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URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/WS_dynamicsofsigns_eng/
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