ABSTRACT
As theories of signification necessarily examine the epistemic relation between signifying sign and signified object, interpreter and context, knowledge and its transmission, the first chapter of this monograph examines Hugh of Saint Victor’s theory of knowledge. Through his writings on pedagogical formation, the Victorine offers a description of the journey to Wisdom as a life-long quest towards Truth. This is described as a realist, salvific expetitio which, starting in the arts, unfolds through the phenomenological discursiveness of time. Human attainment of knowledge is therefore not understood as based on a static plane of logicised abstractions, but is formulated around the dynamism of the epistemic unfolding through time, which makes history – and not logic – the locus of signification.
