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It frames research proposals for a history of semiotic thought, connecting explicit theories and implicit assumptions across philosophers from antiquity to Kant and Peirce. The selected section then explains how dictionary and encyclopedia models structure semantic representation and knowledge, distinguishing analytical properties from broader encyclopedic knowledge in examples such as the concept of “dog.”","From the Tree to the Labyrinth\nUmberto Eco\nContents\nIntroduction\n1. From the Tree to the Labyrinth\n2. Metaphor as Knowledge: Aristotle’s Medieval (Mis)Fortunes\n3. From Metaphor to Analogia Entis\n4. The Dog That Barked (and Other Zoosemiotic Archaeologies)\n5. Fakes and Forgeries in the Middle Ages\n6. Jottings on Beatus of Liébana\n7. Dante between Modistae and Kabbalah\n8. The Use and Interpretation of Medieval Texts\n9. Toward a History of Denotation\n10. On Llull, Pico, and Llullism\n11. The Language of the Austral Land\n12. The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre\n13. On the Silence of Kant\n14. Natural Semiosis and the Word in Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed (I promessi sposi)\n15. The Threshold and the Infinite: Peirce and Primary Iconism\n16. The Definitions in Croce’s Aesthetic\n17. Five Senses of the Word “Semantics,” from Bréal to the Present Day\n18. Weak Thought versus the Limits of Interpretation\nReferences\nIndex\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Introduction\" \\h \u0014Introduction\u0015\nAt the second congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (Vienna, July 1979) I presented a number of “Proposals for a History of Semiotics.” I recommended that we intensify historical studies on the various theories of the sign and of semiosis over the centuries, first of all because I considered it a necessary contribution to the history of philosophy as a whole, and secondly because I was convinced that to do semiotics today one needed to know how it was done yesterday, however much it might have been disguised as something else. And what better place to begin than from that “Coup d’oeil sur le développement de la sémiotique” with which Roman Jakobson had opened the first international congress of the association five years earlier?\nI suggested three lines of research. The first had narrower ambitions, since it was confined to those authors who had spoken explicitly about the relation of signification, starting with the Cratylus and with Aristotle, down through Augustine and eventually to Peirce—but without neglecting the authors of treatises on rhetoric like Emanuele Tesauro or the theorists of universal and artificial languages like Wilkins or Beck.\nMy second line of research involved a close rereading of the whole history of philosophy with a view to finding implicit semiotic theories even where they had apparently not been explicitly developed, and the chief example I gave was that of Kant.\nFinally, my third suggestion was intended to cover all those forms of literature in which symbolic and hermeneutical strategies of any kind were deployed or developed (among them, for instance, the works of the Pseudo-Areopagite). I cited as examples manuals of divination (texts like Guglielmo Dorando’s Rationale divinorum officiorum), the medieval bestiaries, the various discussions of poetics, down to the marginal notes of writers and artists who had reflected in one way or another on the processes of communication.\nAnyone familiar with the bibliography of semiotics over the last thirty years knows that my appeal was anchored on the one hand in already developed or developing historiographical interests, while on the other it voiced an urgency that was already, so to speak, in the air: over the past thirty years, the contributions to an historical reconstruction of theories of the sign and semiosis have been many, so many that we are already in a position (provided someone could be found with the will and the energy to take on the task) to plan a definitive history of semiotic thought, by various authors and in several volumes.\nFor my own part, in the course of this thirty-year period, I have continued to elaborate the occasional personal offering, even returning from time to time to a topic previously explored—not to mention that chapter in semiotic history to which I devoted my La ricerca della lingua perfetta (1993), translated as The Search for a Perfect Language (1995). 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