The Enigmas of Ground

The Enigmas of the Ground is a book that analyzes, proposes and discusses a novel theorization of the concept of ground in semiotics and its possibilities for the development of a semiotics of the everyday or of the experiences of elucidation, explicitation, inference, sense and significance of interpretive processes and understanding of signs, and of the relationships between signs and objects when these are diluted, disseminated and dynamically woven in the experiences of the world of everyday life or the intramundane horizon, both of the solitary individual in the universe of his soliloquy, as in intersubjective relations and communications, in symbolic, situational and social interactions, that is, in the hermeneusis and semiosis of culture. The book explores and discusses the dimensions of the ground between nature, culture, and metaculture through a wide variety of examples of decoding, meaning assignment, and inferences in the everyday world, uncovering and theorizing the sign/object relationship as a dialectic of mutual origination at the ground level, where the sign is not always in the place of the object, but rather both confer their mutual identity and find a common source.

The book extends its developments to the analysis and proposition of a theory on the preinterpreted nature of experience and the world, focusing and elucidating how, from the solitary reflexive soliloquy of the subject to intersubjective elucidations and the analysis of extrinsic interactive social situations, the interpretive and hermeneutic processes participate in the very ontology of experience and the phenomenological meaning of the world for both subjectivity and practice, through the relationship of current interpretations with preinterpretations where the heritage plays a determining role in the processes of inference and decoding. Analyzing the notion of sign outside the usual parameters of sign centrism leer todo...