Subject: RE: [IFETS-Discuss] Umberto Eco
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Date: Wed 24 May 2000 - 14:32:32 MEST
From: rparkany@borg.com Subject: RE: [IFETS-Discuss] Umberto Eco Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 05:32:32 -0700
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Oh, Arun! Greetings, once again...the *Semester from Hell* has finally run its
course and continue my journey.
This Eco is one of my favorites. He met an untimely end at his own hand,
unfortunately, having survived the holocaust to write some of the best of moral
essays from the Italic Peninsula in these pre-post-post-modern times...
Yes, this fellow, Umberto, was a semiotician of great talent. Semiotics is what
rounds out semantics and syntax in the formal studies of linguistics. It is the
stuff that makes positive scientists quiver, twitch, and then convulse, however,
so watch how you reference the stuff in your department...
Here is another quote from him that I found on this quite worthwhile page and
repository of the sensible. It seems to carry forth this Wittgensteinian sense to
its next level. No?
BTW: thank you so much for the Ong seque...as you see, I tried to hold your
thinking close in my response to Bob--EVEN though, for some reason, I never
received your original posting to IFETS until I got the digested form--this IS
sense-making at a distance even without signs, indeed, perhaps even paranormal,
or should I say, parasensibly? Best to you and your work. I'll be in touch...
;-} rap.
"The things that cannot be theoretically expressed, one must tell a story about".
*A sign is anything that can be used to tell a lie* - Umberto Eco
But, then again, as Pontius Pilot rejoined: *What is Truth...*
And ever since the *literate turn* in the genre of reporting and crafting studies
in social sciences, I suppose the Truth is the Best Story one can tell. These two
quotes DO tell us quite a bit concerning the *Grounded Theory* in qualitative
studies, though. I like it, indeed. Thank you for it... ;-} rap.
Refs:
The Media and Communication Studies Site :
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Functions/mcs.html
Arun-Kumar Tripathi wrote:
>
> Greetings IFETSers,
>
> Hi, I know this is a hard question, but I came across the quote of
> "Umberto Eco", which says "The things that cannot be theoretically
> expressed, one must tell a story about". It sounds like he is playing
> off the final words of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, what cannot be spoken
> about must be passed over in silence. Can anyone has the courage
> to go in details on the above? Thanks in advance!
>
> Best Regards
> Arun Tripathi
>
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