List,
Long-time peirce-listers will remember Bernard Morand, who continues in
retirement to peruse peirce-l. Some years ago he wrote a book _Logique
de la Conception_, which he mentioned at peirce-l. I had, or retained,
no clear idea back then that the book was about DESIGN and semiotic. The
French word 'conception' means both conception and design; the kinship
between the ideas is obvious. Anyway, I learned about that in preparing
to add his book to the "Books till 2005" page at Arisbe, but a word in
the longer title stumped me, so I contacted him about how to translate it:
Logique de la Conception: Figures de sémiotique générale d'après Charles
S. Peirce
"Figures"? He explained that it could be like the figures that accompany
a text, 'Figure 1,' 'Figure 2' etc. - diagrams, illustrations, etc. So
we settled on "illustrations," which, though less elegant, I think, than
the French 'figures', still has its special resonance in a Peirce
studies context. So, it's:
Logique de la Conception: Figures de sémiotique générale d'après Charles
S. Peirce
[Logic of Design: Illustrations of General Semiotic After Charles S. Peirce]
by Bernard Morand. París: L'Harmattan, May 2004. Editions
<http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=17489>
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=17489.
Anyway, he agreed to my request that he translate the Foreword into
English. He asked that I polish up the resulting English. I agreed, so
any flaws in it are purely mine. I've posted the translation at Arisbe in
HTML format:
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/morand/conception-fwd.htm
and in
WORD format:
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/morand/conception-fwd.doc
so that those of us non-French-speakers who were curious, or who might
be curious now, can get an idea of what Bernard was up to in his book.
Bernard is an information technology specialist who held professorships
and who saw software engineering developments as illustrations of
Peirce's general semiotic.
For French readers, I've also posted:
Foreword in the original French (PDF):
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/morand/avantpropos.pdf
Table of Contents (PDF):
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/morand/tblm.pdf
French article by Bernard "Logique de la Conception" (PDF) complementary
to the book:
http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/morand/memoirehdr.pdf
Best, Ben
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