Sein und schein : explorations in existential semiotics / Eero Tarasti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarasti, Eero, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--Philosophy.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification and communication. This book develops its theory further starting from the continental philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Jaspers, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre) on one hand, yet remaining also faithful to the tradition of the European semiotics, particularly the Paris school.From the notions of being, doing and appearing the study applies them to crucial social problems of the contemporary world, and moreover to various so-called 'lesser arts' like performance and gastronomy. It also introduces some precursors of the approach.The book represents what can be called neosemiotics, the search for new theories and fields of the discipline.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to Sein und Schein

Contents

Chapter 1. Existential semiotics today: Sein (Being) and Schein (Appearing)

Chapter 2. On the appearance or the present structure and existential digressions of the subject

Chapter 3. Representation in Semiotics

Chapter 4. The concept of genre: In general and in music

Chapter 5. The world and its interpretation

Chapter 6. Signs around Us – Umwelt, Semiosphere and Signscape

Chapter 7. Semio-crises in the era of globalisation: Towards a new theory of collective and individual subjectivity

Chapter 8. Ideologies manifesting axiologies

Chapter 9. Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history, and the counter-current of signs

Chapter 10. Culture and transcendence

Chapter 11. A proposal for a semiotic theory of performing arts

Chapter 12. On culinemes, gastrophemes, and other signs of cooking

Chapter 13.A. Metaphors of nature and organicism

Chapter 13.B. Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music

Chapter 14. Finland in the eyes of a semiotician

Chapter 15. From absolute spirit to the community of interpretation: Josiah Royce (1855–1916), the American classic between Hegel and Peirce

Chapter 16. Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli

Chapter 17. Vladimir Solovyov

Chapter 18. Russian formalism in the global semiotics – Precursor of the European branch

Chapter 19. Wilhelm Sesemann in the context of semiotics

Chapter 20. Roland Barthes or the birth of semiotics from the spirit of music

Chapter 21. The right of unfunctionality – Explorations in Ponzio’s philosophical semiotics

Chapter 22. São Paulo, Helsinki, New Delhi – The life of José Luiz Martinez

Chapter 23. Can Semiotics be organized? Observations over a 40-year period

Literature

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614516354

1614516359

9781501501166

150150116X

OCLC:

931852343