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Eliseo Verón was born June 12 of 1935. He is an Argentine sociologist and semiologist. In 1961 he obtained a degree in philosophy (UBA) and, then, a scholarship from CONICET that allowed him to study on a social anthropology lab at the Collège de France with Claude Levi-Strauss.
In 1962 he attended to a Roland Barthes’s seminar in the École Practique des hautes études, in which he started to specialize in semiology. In 1974, Verón, Oscar Steimberg, Juan Carlos Indart and Oscar Traversa, founded The Magazine Lenguajes in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Due to this project the semiology was introduced for the first time in this land since Eliseo Verón was in charge of the first translation of the structural anthropology to the Spanish language . His studies were based on C. Pierce theories, but guided towards the collectives phenomena, wondering himself what kind of phenomena become socially significant.
From this reflections, he argued that the most important element in a society, is their capacity to produce sense. This production of meanings is given on what he calle "textos", which are composed of a plurality of significant materials. At the same time, this textos are enrolled in a discurso. We will talking of this forward.
In 1970 he obtained the Guggenheim scholarship and he traveled to France where he lived until 1995. He taught at several French universities and in 1985 he obtained his PH diploma at the University of Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis. In this year he returned to Argentina and directed got graduated in Communication Studies at Bar Illan Argentina Hebrew University.
Within this same discipline, he taught at the National University of Rosario, Universidad Nacional del Sur and the University of San Andrés. Between 2000 and 2006 he directed the Master of Journalism at the University of San Andrés, a joint project with the Clarín Group and Columbia University.
He has published since 1968 books about sociology, social psychology, communication and semiotics, influenced a first period structuralism Claude Levi-Strauss and the theory of the sign of Ferdinand de Saussure (binary model) and then by the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce (ternary model), who relied on to develop his theory of social semiotics (1988).
Between 1970 and 1978 he was president of the Argentina Association of Semiotics. He was campaign adviser of Eduardo Duhalde during Argentina Presidential Election of 2011. In August 28, 2013, he participated as amicus curiae, with arguments in favor of the plaintiff at the hearing of the Supreme Court of Argentina. He has been recognize in three opportunities: in 1970 he was appointed Guggenheim Fellow for the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006, he received the Konex award for his contribution to linguistics and literary theory. And in the same year he was appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of Rosario.
In 1962 he attended to a Roland Barthes’s seminar in the École Practique des hautes études, in which he started to specialize in semiology. In 1974, Verón, Oscar Steimberg, Juan Carlos Indart and Oscar Traversa, founded The Magazine Lenguajes in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Due to this project the semiology was introduced for the first time in this land since Eliseo Verón was in charge of the first translation of the structural anthropology to the Spanish language . His studies were based on C. Pierce theories, but guided towards the collectives phenomena, wondering himself what kind of phenomena become socially significant.
From this reflections, he argued that the most important element in a society, is their capacity to produce sense. This production of meanings is given on what he calle "textos", which are composed of a plurality of significant materials. At the same time, this textos are enrolled in a discurso. We will talking of this forward.
In 1970 he obtained the Guggenheim scholarship and he traveled to France where he lived until 1995. He taught at several French universities and in 1985 he obtained his PH diploma at the University of Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis. In this year he returned to Argentina and directed got graduated in Communication Studies at Bar Illan Argentina Hebrew University.
Within this same discipline, he taught at the National University of Rosario, Universidad Nacional del Sur and the University of San Andrés. Between 2000 and 2006 he directed the Master of Journalism at the University of San Andrés, a joint project with the Clarín Group and Columbia University.
He has published since 1968 books about sociology, social psychology, communication and semiotics, influenced a first period structuralism Claude Levi-Strauss and the theory of the sign of Ferdinand de Saussure (binary model) and then by the thought of Charles Sanders Peirce (ternary model), who relied on to develop his theory of social semiotics (1988).
Between 1970 and 1978 he was president of the Argentina Association of Semiotics. He was campaign adviser of Eduardo Duhalde during Argentina Presidential Election of 2011. In August 28, 2013, he participated as amicus curiae, with arguments in favor of the plaintiff at the hearing of the Supreme Court of Argentina. He has been recognize in three opportunities: in 1970 he was appointed Guggenheim Fellow for the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2006, he received the Konex award for his contribution to linguistics and literary theory. And in the same year he was appointed Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of Rosario.