SIGNS, SCIENCE AND POLITICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface & Acknowledgements -- LIST OF ORIGINAL PLACES OF PUBLICATION -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. The Semiotic Control of Experience -- 1.1 Towards a natural history of speech -- 1.1.1 Robinson Crusoe and Victor de l'Aveyron -- 1.1.2 Language and man's dual nature -- 1.2 Language and the "way of ideas" -- 1.2.1 The way of reason vs. the way of ideas -- 1.2.2 Common sense, ordinary language and praxis -- 1.2.3 Semantics, poetics and the theory of communication -- 1.3 Semiotics and philosophy -- 1.3.1 A "prologue to all sciences" -- 1.3.2 The role of semiotics in experimental metaphysics -- 1.3.3 The crisis of empiricist methodology in the sciences of language -- 1.4 The theory of signs and the metaphysical revival -- 1.4.1 Language structure and social hierarchy -- 1.4.2 The crisis of semiotic logic and the primacy of consciousness -- Suggestions for further reading: -- Chapter 2. The Semiotic Control of Civil Society -- 2.1 "Sapienza ben parlante" or: the use of eloquence -- 2.1.1 Vico's Orpheus and Muratorl's urban preacher -- 2.1.2 Lordship over language -- 2.1.3 Language and the foundation of society -- 2.1.4 From myth to logos -- 2.1.5 "Expliquons Vico..." -- 2.2 Linguistic theory and reformist philosophy in Italy -- 2.2.1 Philosophy of language and social communication -- 2.2.2 The learned and the media -- 2.2.3 The order of language and the social order -- 2.2.4 Words, money and power -- 2.3 Theories of language in Italy from Revolution to Restoration -- 2.3.1 Principles of a new rhetoric -- 2.3.2 Language and Ideology in Italy -- 2.3.3 Towards a common language -- 2.3.4 Ideology and semiotics -- 2.3.5 Alessandro Manzoni's theory of language -- 2.3.6 Manzoni on linguistic laws and linguistic usage.

2.4 Theories of language and theories of power in France -- 2.4.1 Power and the word: for and against the Lumières -- 2.4.2 The eclectic compromise -- 2.4.3 The student of rhetoric and the professor of philosophy -- 2.4.4 Philosophy of history and philosophy of language -- Suggestions for further reading: -- Chapter 3. The Birth of Idealism in Linguistics: The History of a Transition -- 3.1 Transcendental subjectivity and language -- 3.2 Linguistics and transcendental philosophy -- 3.3 A critique of linguistic transcendentalism -- 3.4 Conclusions -- Suggestions for further reading: -- Bibliography -- A. Primary sources -- B. Secondary sources -- Indexof Authors -- Index of Subjects & Terms.