Herman Parret is professor emeritus at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Leuven University (Belgium) where he taught philosophy of language and philosophical aesthetics. He has been invited frequently in various foreign universities in France and Italy, in Latin-American countries and in the United States. His publications concern linguistic and philosophical pragmatics, theoretical and visual semiotics, the epistemology of linguistics and of semiotics, philosophical aesthetics and art theory. His interest aims at generating a dialogue between disciplines, always in search of a global and foundational reflection.

Meaning and understanding

1981

edited byHerman Parret(KU Leuven)Jacques Bouveresse

Berlin, de Gruyter

Exigences et perspectives de la sémiotique

1985

edited byHerman Parret(KU Leuven)Hans-Georg Ruprecht

Amsterdam, Benjamins