Meaning, meaning, body and passions. A semiotic reading of Martin Heidegger's hermeneutical phenomenology

Abstract

In the following work I propose two objectives. First, I will try to relate the place that the body has in the semiotic theory of the Greimasian school and in the hermeneutic phenomenology of M. Heidegger. The idea I am going to develop is that the body in both theories is conceived as the place of production of meaning, that is, as a border mechanism. Secondly, I will try to explain the passionate component of meaning through a semiotic reading of Sein und Zeit's thesis on the relationship between understanding and moods. The thesis that I will try to justify can be summarized as follows: the semantic difference between the affective disposition and the understanding lies in the fact that the inherent sense of affectivity is of the order of the continuous. On the other hand, the sense of understanding is of the order of the discreet.