Screen LibrarySein und schein : explorations in existential semiotics /
Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification, and communication. This book develops its theory further, applying the notions of being, doing, and appearing to crucial social problems of the contemporary world, and to various so-called 'lesser arts' like pe...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification, and communication. This book develops its theory further, applying the notions of being, doing, and appearing to crucial social problems of the contemporary world, and to various so-called 'lesser arts' like performance and gastronomy. |
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1 online resource(xii, 466pages) : illustrations Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781614516354 |
| Index Number: | P99 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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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. S o Paulo, Helsinki, New Delhi The life of Jos Luiz Martinez -- Chapter 23. Can Semiotics be organized? Observations over a 40-year period -- Literature -- Index. |