Contents
Foreword to the English edition
Preface
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PART I
1 Las Meninas
2 The prose of the world
I The four similitudes
IT Signatures
III The limits of the world
IV The writing of things
V The being of language
Representing
I Don Quixote
II Order
IIT The representation of the sign
IV Duplicated representation
V' The imagination of resemblance
VI Mathesis and ‘taxinomia’
4 Speaking
I Criticism and commentary
II General grammar
III The theory of the verb
IV Articulation
V' Designation
VI Derivation
VII The quadrilateral of language
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