A collection of essays tracing the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition, providing links for cultural studies, philosophy, literature, and history, it attempts to understand semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. In the CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY series.

Hugh J. Silverman -- Introduction I. THEORIZING THE SIGN 1. Peter Carravetta -- The Reasons of the Code: Reading Eco's a Theory of Semiotics 2. Alessandro Carrera -- Consequences of Unlimited Semiosis: Carlo Sinr's Metaphysics of the Sign and Semiotical Hermeneutics 3. François Raffoul -- Lacan and the Event of the Subject 4. Kelly Oliver -- Tracing the Signifier Behind the Scenes of Desire: Kristeva's Challenge to Lacan's Analysis II CULTURAL SIGNIFIERS 5. Stephanie John Sage -- Eliminating the Distance: From Barthes' Écriture-Lecture to Écriture-Vue 6. Mark Roberts -- The End(s) of Pictorial Representation: Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard 7. Debra B. Bergoffen -- Mourning, Woman, and the Phallus: Lacan's Hamlet 8. M. Alison Arnett -- A Metaphor of the Unspoken: Kristeva's Semiotic Chora 9. Hugh J. Silverman -- The Sign of the Rose: Filming Eco III THE LIMITS OF SEMIOSIS 10. Julia Kristeva -- Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary 11. John Llewelyn -- Approaches to Semioethics 12. Michael Naas -- Stumping the Sun: Toward a Postmetaphorics 13. Adi Ophir -- The Cartography of Knowledge and Power: Foucault Reconsidered