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"Counterpoting: Philosophical Dialogues" is a major book of hard science through the philosophy of science, developing deep issues about pivotal topics of classical and contemporary theory, the phenomenological formation of the life word versus the textual exégesis in understanding the simbols, signs, material and visual expression of culture textuality, and intertextuality, the relation between inside and outside language seen of the deeper side of philosophy to empirical issues as it appear in empirical research of culture, deeper semiological and linguistic theory issues to be considered under empirical research of sociology and anthropology, the book innovates how semiotic theory was previouslly considered under cultural anthropology proposing and developing new paths, Jacques Derrida, Charles Sanders Peirce, Husserl, Hegel, Saussure, Structuralism and Posestructuralism issues are dicussed in a way which redefines the relation between the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditión and the analyticla philosophy one tradition in wester thought. Developed as a cointerpoint of philosophical dialogues between Abdel Hernández San Juan and Alberto Méndez Suarez, the book explore at the same time new ways of producing knowledge.