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Understanding Morphology
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Annotation: Understanding Morphology offers students an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a variety of languages.
Identifier: 9780340950012
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Пространства и смыслы
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Other title information: Семантика культурного ландшафта
Notes: This book has a table of contents and annotation in English.
Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.
Identifier: 9785864431627
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Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 558-579
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.09
Animal vocalization and human polyglossia in Walter of Bibbesworth’s thirteenth-century domestic treatise in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 525-541
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.07
Animals and music: Between cultural definitions and sensory evidence
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 423-453
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.02
Are “non-human sounds/music” lesser than human music? A comparison from a biological and musicological perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 509-524
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.06
Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 580-613
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.10
Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 542-557
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.08
From biorhetorics to zoorhetorics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 498-508
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.05
Introduction
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 353-368
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.00
John Maynard Smith’s typology of animal signals: A view from semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 477-497
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.04
Konrad Lorenz’s epistemological criticism towards Jakob von Uexküll
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 637-660
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.12
La coscienza di Gino
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- Esperienza Musicale e Arte Di vivere
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Other title information: Essays in honour of Gino Stefani
Annotation: Essay collection in honor of Gino Stefani
Identifier: 9789525576085
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Ludomir Michał Rogowski
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- Sylwetka życia i twórczości
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Annotation: This book covers the life, work and critics perception of a Polish composer Ludomir Michał Rogowski
Identifier: 9788387182854
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Mediating the 'idea of One'
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Other title information: Arvo Pärt's pre-existing music in film
Notes: Kaire Maimets-Volt's dissertation
Annotation: The principal aim of this dissertation is to examine the use of Arvo Part's pre-existing tintinnabuli compositions in contemporary film soundtracks in order to determine the aesthetic reception of this music in film art. This will be achieved primarily through film analyses that explore the functions of tintinnabuli music in film, and the expressive meanings this music is considered suitable to communicate (with).
Identifier: 9789985979761
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Monsters we met, monsters we made: On the parallel emergence of phenotypic similarity under domestication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 454-476
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.03
Murtuvat merkit
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Other title information: semiotiikan teoreettisen ja soveltavan tutkimuksen näkökulmia
Annotation: The work considers the fracture and transition of signs and texts - and thus also meanings - into each other. Meaning is always formed towards the future. The use of signs to convey and present meanings is already a productive process. Meaning inevitably becomes more than what is conveyed or presented. The production of meanings is also based on various structural elements, rules and practices. Static and permanent as well as dynamic and developing are in constant interaction with each other. The articles in the work represent the rich semiotics of the early 21st century. The approaches and the theories that define them are united by the glow of comprehensive research, in which the differences between sign categories and systems are understood as task-specific and contextual, not essential.
Identifier: 9789515707642
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Sign activity of mammals as means of ecological adaptation
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 614-638
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.11
Space in musical semiosis
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Other title information: an abductive theory of the musical composition process
Annotation: Space in Musical semiotsis examines key issues of musical signification. It employs C. S. Peirce's semiotics and cognitive metaphor theories to establish a theory of the musical composisiton process, an epitome of musical signification.
Identifier: 9789525431285
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Studying the cognitive states of animals: Epistemology, ethology and ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 369-422
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.01
The Parallax View
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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
Identifier: 9780262240512
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Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
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Comprensione e malinteso
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- Presentazione di Augusto Ponzio
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Other title information: Tra Babele e Pentecoste
Annotation: Comprensione e malinteso: non si tratta di una polarizzacione, di una copia oppositiva. Comprensione e malinteso vanno a braccetto e generalmente la comprensione e fatta di malinteso. Eliminare il malinteso significa spesso mettere in discussione una relazione, un consenso, un'adesione, un rapport di reciproca comprensione. Understanding and misunderstanding: it is not a polarization, an oppositional copy. Understanding and misunderstanding go hand in hand and generally understanding is made of misunderstanding. Eliminating misunderstanding often means questioning a relationship, a consensus, an adhesion, a rapport of mutual understanding. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 9788882314699
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From semiosis to semioethics: The full vista of the action of signs
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 437-491
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.08
Humanities: State and prospects
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 527-532
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.14
Jakobson and Peirce: Translational intersemiosis and symbiosis in opera
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 341-374
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.04
Jakobson: Translation as imputed similarity
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 315-339
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.03
Meanings come in six
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.09
Obrazy dźwiękowe muzyki unistycznej
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Other title information: inspiracja malarska w twórczości Zygmunta Krauzego
Annotation: Zygmunt Krauze is the founder of a new current in art: unistic (unitary) music. He developed this concept in the first period of his artistic work, inspired by the unistic paintings of Władysław Strzemiński. Traces of this style are also detectable in Krauze’s later post-unistic works. Unistic music is characterised by a paradoxical unity in diversity. Most of the composer’s statements collected in this paper refer to specific features of unism in music. Other, more general comments concern the essence of music, the composer’s personal stance, the creative process, the autonomy of the composer, the audience and the performers, etc. Two longer texts by Zygmunt Krauze have been quoted in full. One can be considered as a unistic manifesto, while the other is a kind of personal credo.
Identifier: 9788387182779
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Pasaulis ir lietuvių kalba
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Other title information: indoeuropiečiu̜ ir lietuviu̜ kalbu̜ giminystė
Annotation: This book discovers the genesis of Lithuanian language and its position in the history of Indo-European language development.
Identifier: 9789986433484
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Roman Jakobson and the topic of translation: Reception in academic reference works
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 271-314
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.02
Semiospheric transitions: A key to modelling translation
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 259-269
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.01
Specialization, semiosis, semiotics: the 33rd annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 515-520
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.12
Susan Petrilli named seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 522-526
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.13
Translation and semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 253-257
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.00
Translation as communication and auto-communication
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 375-397
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.05
Translation as sentimental education: Zhukovskij’s Sel’skoe kladbishche
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 399-416
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.06
Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman's Semiotics
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Notes: Appendix: Three lectures by Juri Lotman
Annotation: This book looks afresh at the heritage of cultural semiotician Juri Lotman - the founder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. The author proceeds from the idea that 'intellect' is one of the central categories of Juri Lotman's semiotics. Intellect becomes an important concept in Lotman's heritage - starting with the series of lectures given by him in the autumn and winter of 1967 at the University of Tartu (the lectures are published for the first time as an appendix to the book).
Identifier: 9789949118311
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Wholeness and its remainders
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Other title information: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics
Annotation: The PhD thesis is a piece of research into the nature of theoretical constructions in various academic disciplines. Drawing on a close analysis of some theoretical works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, it distinguishes between totalizing and detotalizing ways of dealing with the phenomenal multiplicity which always confronts researchers when the construction of a theory is at stake. Theoretical procedures of totalization constitute phenomenal multiplicity into self-enclosed wholes and erase their remains. The thesis considers this kind of procedure from a temporal point of view, focusing on the theories of temporality elaborated by St. Augustine and Edmund Husserl and, from a systemic point of view, focusing on the theory of the (linguistic) system elaborated by Ferdinand de Saussure. Martin Heidegger's critique of the notion of 'presence' and Karl Marx's critique of the notion of 'value' are examined as problematizing the main instruments of temporal and systemic totalization respectively. Still, both Heidegger and Marx lingered within the logic of totality, simply opposing a more authentic wholeness to an inauthentic one. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard are, in contrast, considered in the thesis as representatives of detotalizing procedures which claim the impossibility of self-enclosed wholeness drawing on the inexhaustible remnants of any totalization and a general principle of constitutive openness. Particular attention is paid to those aspects of Yuri Lotman's later thought – such as the notions of explosion, boundary and dialogue – which can be understood as instruments for theoretical procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization of this sort. In the course of the thesis it becomes clear that, for political reasons, the commitment of this research is to detotalization. This commitment is illustrated in the last part of the work. There, the attempts at rethinking emancipative politics elaborated by three contemporary philosophers – Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière – are analyzed as theoretical procedures of political detotalization from both a systemic and a temporal point of view. Wholeness and its remains: theoretical procedures of totalization and detotalization in semiotics, philosophy and politics The dissertation examines the nature of theoretical constructions in various disciplines. Based on a close analysis of some written works in the field of semiotics, philosophy and politics, a distinction is made between totalizing and detotalizing approaches to dealing with the diversity and heterogeneity of phenomena, which always plagues researchers and scientists in the creation of theories. Theoretical procedures of totalization reduce phenomenal diversity to self-contained and residue-free wholes.The dissertation analyses such procedures from both a temporal perspective (St. Augustine's and Edmund Husserl's theories of time) and a systemic perspective (Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of (linguistic) systems). Martin Heidegger's critique of the concept of 'presence/presentness' and Karl Marx's critique of the concept of 'value' undermine the theoretical tools of temporal and systemic totalization, respectively. But neither Heidegger nor Marx go beyond the logic of totality, they simply contrast authentic wholeness with false and inauthentic. The works of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, on the other hand, represent procedures of detotalization that highlight the impossibility of self-contained wholeness, relying on the principles of the inexhaustibility of the residues of totalization and deconstructive openness. The dissertation pays special attention to those aspects of Juri Lotman's later thought – the concepts of explosion, limit and dialogue – that may be useful in developing such procedures of temporal and systemic detotalization. The dissertation contributes to detotalization for political reasons, which are revealed in the final section of the work. It analyzes the attempt of contemporary philosophers Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière to rethink emancipatory politics as a procedure of political detotalization from both a systemic and temporal perspective.
Identifier: 9789949119349
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История одного текста Ю. М. Лотмана [The history of a text by Juri Lotman]
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.11
Нескольковводныхслов [A few introductory words]
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 509-511
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.10
О понятии «перевод» в трудах Юрия Лотмана [The notion of “translation” in the works of Juri Lotman]
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 417-436
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.07
Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts
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- Proceedings of Gathering in Biosemiotics 6, Salzburg 2006
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Annotation: Proceedings of the Gathering in Biosemiotics in Salzburg 2006
Identifier: 9789525576030
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Grammatica Della Lingua Lituana
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Annotation: Lithuanian grammar in Italian
Identifier: 9789955699934
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Homo Homini Lupus?
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Other title information: spre o semiotică a discursului politic
Annotation: "Homo homini lupus", the famous line of Plautus, univocally interpreted by philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes, Hume and others, still suggests that man is the only "animal" that attacks his fellow man for reasons other than instinctive ones. At the same time, however, the greed that turns some people into beasts seems to be balanced by opposite attitudes, synthesised by Seneca in the principle "Homo res sacra homini". Between these extremes marked by tears and love, the entire tense history of the human being unfolded. "Quo vadis, homine?", this is the question to which, in order to extinguish potential tensions, the politician owes him an answer, valuing the science of reading the signs that foreshadow the future...
Identifier: 9737303075
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La filosofia del linguaggio come arte dell'ascolto : sulla ricerca scientifica di Augusto Ponzio
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Philosophy of language as the art of listening
Annotation: A colection of essays reflecting on the work of the italian semiotician Augusto Ponzio
Identifier: 8875530653
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Late Marxism
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Other title information: Adorno or The Persistence of the Dialectic
Annotation: A lively and lucid introduction to one of the greatest Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century
Identifier: 9781844675753
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Principles of pitch organization in Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle
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Annotation: The book stems from the author's thesis, which attempts to demonstrate the usefulness of incomporating tonal and modal elements into a pitch-web analysis of Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle.
Identifier: 9789521038372
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Przestrzeń i muzyka
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Annotation: This essay is the third in a series of works devoted to musical hermeneutics. In the first, I dealt with the basic concepts of music ontology: movement, play, being and time, drawing inspiration from the hermeneutical philosophy of Schleiermacher, Diltey, Heidegger and Gadamer. Then, inspired by the thought of Paul Ricoeur, I analysed the conceptual category of musical narrative. Even then, in these considerations, the category of space appeared many times, inseparable from human experience in its temporal and spatial structure and, as it turns out, inextricably linked to the experience of music. In the reception of music, we are undoubtedly given a certain "temporal" sound-musical space.
Identifier: 9788387182731
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Simfonia de Camera Atelier de Cercetare Si Creatie
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Annotation: This is a collection of works that look closer to the topic of the chamber symphony genre
Identifier: 9789731910086
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