Eero Tarasti

Existential Semiotics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253028532
• Artikelnr.: 47465440

Autorenporträt

Eero Tarasti holds the Chair of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. One of the world's leading semioticians, he is founder and President of the Semiotic Society of Finland, Director of the International Semiotics Institute at Imatra, and author of numerous articles and books, including A Theory of Musical Semiotics (Indiana University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Part One: Philosophical Reflections
On the Paths of Existential Semiotics
Signs and Transcendence
Endo-/Exogenic Signs, Fields, and Worlds
Understanding, Misunderstandings, and Self-Understanding
Signs of Anxiety; or the Problem of Semiotic Subject
Part Two: In the Forest of Symbols
From Aesthetics to Ethics
The "Structural" and "Existential" Styles in 20th Century Arts
On the Authenticity and Inauthenticity of Art
Part Three: The Social and Cultural Field of Signs
On Post-colonial Semiosis
Semiotics of Landscapes
Poetics of Place
Walt Disney and Americanness
"...and you find the right one"
Senses, Values-and Media