Rossi-Landi Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)
Presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia applicata dell’Università di Padova è conservato il Fondo Rossi-Landi nel quale è possibile consultare nella sua interezza lo scambio epistolare intercorso tra il... more
Presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia applicata dell’Università di Padova è conservato il Fondo Rossi-Landi nel quale è possibile consultare nella sua interezza lo scambio epistolare intercorso tra il 1971 e il 1973 tra il semiologo italiano Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) e il filosofo vietnamita Tran-Duc-Thao (1917-1993). Oggetto del carteggio è il progetto editoriale di un volume dal titolo L’origine del linguaggio e della coscienza che avrebbe raccolto la traduzione italiana di alcuni articoli di Thao apparsi nel decennio precedente nelle rivista francese La pensée. https://doi.org/10.19079/actas.2017.1.87
Exposing the Dialectics of Value-Form, Marx describes the oppositional-and-differential structure constituting the logic of the capitalist mode of production. The Commodity-Form represents the simplest "economic concretum" in which this... more
Exposing the Dialectics of Value-Form, Marx describes the oppositional-and-differential structure constituting the logic of the capitalist mode of production. The Commodity-Form represents the simplest "economic concretum" in which this logic is posited. The Semantic Universe of the commodity is inherently dualistic. It is not possible to consider the commodity as a singularity; just as it is not possible to consider the Sign as a singularity. In both cases, the value relation is generated by a relation of opposition: opposition between different linguistic signs; opposition between different commodities. Ferruccio Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) thematised a homological relation between signs and commodities. Nevertheless, he does not develop a semiotic analysis of the oppositions, contradictions and implications which subtend the Commodity-Form. In this paper, I aim to overcome this theoretical lack, proposing a dialogue between the semiotics of Rossi-Landi and Greimas.
Our contribution intends to recall the idea of linguistic money as it was formulated by Rossi-Landi in his theory of the homology between linguistic production and material production. We will resume the most important linguistic theories... more
Our contribution intends to recall the idea of linguistic money as it was formulated by Rossi-Landi in his theory of the homology between linguistic production and material production. We will resume the most important linguistic theories of value that were influenced by economic theories of value, and the critique that Rossi-Landi addressed to them all. We will show how it can be extended to other theorists of the Seventies. Then, we will extend Rossi-Landian homology to the concept of plus-value, according to his semiotics, but by following Marx’s analysis of the value and of the production of plus-value.
In this paper, I will try to establish a parallel between Charles S. Peirce’s (1839-1914) and Ernst Bloch’s (1885-1977) theory of categories. Both the authors hypothesise a phenomenological foundation for their theory of categories:... more
In this paper, I will try to establish a parallel between Charles S. Peirce’s (1839-1914) and Ernst Bloch’s (1885-1977) theory of categories. Both the authors hypothesise a phenomenological foundation for their theory of categories: categories are elements of Experience (according to Peirce) and products of Praxis (according to Bloch). Nevertheless, Bloch’s phenomenology is characterised by a peculiar aspect: according to Bloch, the gestural dimension plays a fundamental role in the Knowledge Process, positing the category of ‘Possibility’. In line with Maddalena’s analyses on the relation between ‘Complete Gesture’ and ‘Work’, I will try to illustrate that the parallel between Bloch and Peirce can be extended, by including the semiotic dimension of gesture.
Our contribution will reconsider this side of the Rossi-Landian semiotics concerning the proposition of a method that is still up-to-date and allows us to study and understand society. The homology that Rossi-Landi states between material... more
Our contribution will reconsider this side of the Rossi-Landian semiotics concerning the proposition of a method that is still up-to-date and allows us to study and understand society. The homology that Rossi-Landi states between material production and linguistic production proves to be useful to approach problems observed by political psychology in its relationships with economics, ideology, alienation, work, domination, language and social praxis.
"This thematic issue of RIFL allows us to speak of Rossi-Landi’s text Ideologies of linguistic relativity. It is probably the most merciless critique ever made of Sapir- Whorf’s thesis, although it remains, perhaps for this very reason,... more
"This thematic issue of RIFL allows us to speak of Rossi-Landi’s text Ideologies of linguistic relativity. It is probably the most merciless critique ever made of Sapir- Whorf’s thesis, although it remains, perhaps for this very reason, the least known, discussed and developed among the scientific objections aroused against linguistic relativity. Rossi-Landi points out its idealistic and bourgeois basis which brought its theorists to ideological deformations in their formulations, especially in their conception of the relationships between language and thought. Rossi-Landi demystifies them through his semiotics. He explains why what we call linguistic relativity could develop as a theory or a hypothesis through the study of American Indian languages. He shows a series of confusions and reifications it gave birth and suggests another way of considering the problems aroused by linguistic relativity: that one of a dialectical-materialist approach taking account of the alienated condition of speakers, of their material and linguistic exploitation through social models and programs, and of the possibilities of their emancipation."