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Book 2018.0

Passions of Our Time

Julia Kristeva

Culture Columbia University Press 9780231171441 Available

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Notes: edited with foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman. Printed version in two notebooks

Annotation: Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. The collection begins with а vivid recollection of celebrating, as a child in Bulgaria, Alphabet Day, the holiday honoring the Cyrillic letters, which proceeds outward into a contemplation of the writer as translator. Kristeva considers literature with Barthes, freedom through Rousseau, Teresa of Avila and mystical experience, Simone de Beauvoir’s dream life, and Antigone and the psychic life of women. A group of essays drawing on her psychoanalytic work delve into Freud, Lacan, maternal eroticism, and the continued importance of psychoanalysis today. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know. Calling for the courage to renew and reinvent humanism, she outlines the principles of a stance founded on the importance of respecting human life. Finally, Kristeva discusses French culture and diversity, rethinking universalism and interrogating the potential for Islam and psychoanalysis to meet, and pays homage to Beauvoir by rephrasing her dictum into the provocative “One is born woman, but I become one.”

Identifier: 9780231171441

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Book 2017.0

Mimicry and Meaning

Timo Maran

Edition: 1 edition

Biology / Biosemiotics Springer Cham 9783319503158 Available

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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry

Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.

Identifier: 9783319503158

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Book 2015.0

Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights

Bruce K. Friesen

Edition: 1 edition

Social Springer Dordrecht 9789401795500 Available

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Annotation: This volume offers a comprehensible account of the development and evolution of moral systems. It seeks to answer the following questions: If morals are eternal and unchanging, why have the world’s dominant religious moral systems been around for no more than a mere six thousand of the two hundred thousand years of modern human existence? What explains the many and varied moral systems across the globe today? How can we account for the significant change in moral values in one place in less than 100 years’ time? Using examples from classical civilizations, the book demonstrates how increasing diversity compromises a moral system’s ability to account for and integrate larger populations into a single social unit. This environmental stress is not relieved until a broader, more abstract moral system is adopted by a social system. This new system provides a sense of belonging and purpose for more people, motivating them to engage in prosocial (or moral) acts and refrain from socially disruptive selfish acts. The current human rights paradigm is the world’s first universal, indigenous moral system. Because moral systems can be expected to continue to evolve, this book points to current boundaries of the human rights paradigm and where the next major moral revolution might emerge.

Identifier: 9789401795500

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Book 2012.0

Young People's Quality of Life and Construction of Citizenship

Graciela Tonon

Edition: 1 edition

Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400729957 Available

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Annotation: This brief book is dedicated to analyze the relations between quality of life and construction of citizenship of young people in Argentina, considering two specific social scenarios: the community and the university. In the case of community it is important to note that it not imply uniformity, as community means the inclusion of diversity and the achievement of sharing within it, and in the case of university it will be necessary to recognize that as an educational institution the university has expanded his traditional role of production of knowledge, to be an institution of social reference and social support for students. To do this the author will show some of the results of a decade of research in quality of life and young people, using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Identifier: 9789400729957

Status: Available

Book 2008.0

Obrazy dźwiękowe muzyki unistycznej

Krzystof Szwajgier

Music Akademia Muzyczna 9788387182779 Available

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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

Status: Available

Book 2008.0

Wholeness and its remainders

Daniele Monticelli

Edition: 1 edition

General Semiotics Tartu University Press 9789949119349 Available

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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

Status: Available

Book 2006.0

La Musique et Les Signes

Eero Tarasti

Music L'Harmattan 2296004091 Available

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Other title information: Précis de sémiotique musicale

Notes: Edited and expanded edition partly of the book Signs of Music (2002), added is a then not published text about synesthesia.

Annotation: This volume is intended to serve as a "practical guide" to musical semiotics, that is, to the study of music as sign and communication. It includes both a history of this relatively new discipline as well as new contributions of my own invention. The book was originally much longer, but some chapters, such as those dealing with Wagner, have been deleted, and reserved for another volume. I hope that what is retained here will encourage readers, whether they are students of music, musicology, or semiotics, more established researchers, or inquiring minds of any kind, to learn more about musical semiotics. The field is currently undergoing fascinating processes of formation, growth, and diversity.

Identifier: 2296004091

Status: Available

Book 2004.0

Systems of musical sense

Fulvio Delli Pizzi | Michele Ignelzi | Paolo Rosato

Dependent title: essays on the analysis, semiotics, and hermeneutics of music

Music International Semiotics Institute | Semiotic Society of Finland | University of Helsinki | Dept. of Musicology 9525431061 Available

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Annotation: Systems of Musical Sense breathes new life into the field of music semiotics in its intuitive mix of logical rigor and hermeneutical interpretation and unique approach to paradigmatic analysis (Ruwet, Nattiez) and established theories of tinal music (Schoenberg). More significantly, te authors lay out an entirely new and innovative theory in their concept of musical homestasis, a phenomenon closely related to the fundamental law of physics which states that all things set in motion, organic and inorganic, tend to return to their initial point of rest. In tonal music, which also incorporates teology, this can take place at different levels, embodied by various parameters. The sensitive analyses here demonstrate ramifications of this axiom and cast new light on the structuring and effects de sens of tinal genres ranging in diversity from Bach chorales to Wagnerian opera. The culmination of mera tha a decade of research by this tea of widely published music scholars, the book is also a starting point: cognitivists, theorists, musicologists, and others can use the analytic methos "as is", develop it further, or transform it.The systems unvailed here need not be confined to tonal, "common-practice" art music. As universal axiom at least as dependable as the gestaltists "law of good continuation", the theory of homeostasis reveals new dimensions in earlier musical style and thos of more contemporary vintage.

Identifier: 9525431061

Status: Available

Journal Article 2001

Bioinvasion, globalization, and the contingency of cultural and biological diversity: Some ecosemiotic observations

Claus Emmeche

In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature

Pages: 237-262

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.14

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.14

Passions of Our Time

Mimicry and Meaning

Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights

Young People's Quality of Life and Construction of Citizenship

Obrazy dźwiękowe muzyki unistycznej

Wholeness and its remainders

La Musique et Les Signes

Systems of musical sense

Bioinvasion, globalization, and the contingency of cultural and biological diversity: Some ecosemiotic observations

Contents/Sommaire Volume 119 (1998)

Do iconic gestures have a functional role in lexical access? An experimental study of the effects of repeating a verbal message on gesture production

Publications received

Review article

Uncovering the layers of diversity: A semiotic analysis of the corporate training video series ‘Valuing Diversity’

“Beautiful butterflies trapped down by drawing pins” or, Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect: A bagful of signs and designs

“Glory of Glories... She Wears a Hat”: Dress, the immigrant and social equality in America

“Heimat” and “mi tierra”. Towards a semiotic theory of local identities from an intercultural perspective

“Hen” Literature: Genders in conflict (Bulgarian and Romanian woman writers in the period between two World Wars)

“Look Ma, the giraffe’s on fire!”

“Symbols grow” II

A general theory of semiotics in Jaspers’ critical hermeneutics

A pragmatic and semantic analysis of the semiotic signs

A resignification of the tango

A semiotic approach to Christina’s World of Andrew Wyeth

A semiotic approach to the public

A semiotic modelization of the architectural conception

A semiotic perspective on a cultural deficit explanation for school failure

A semiotic-aesthetic approach to the analysis of the practice of folk architecture in market towns

A triple semiosis for the representation of stone tools in archaeology

Abduction and comic in the sign of the three: Peirce, Freud, Eco

Actualite de la semanalyse

Advertising analysis: Cold war versus big thaw vodka advertising

African-American aesthetic of dress: Subcultural meaning and significance

American “Comics”: A semiolinguistic analysis

Architectural space and urban culture PRIVE

Art as a living process

Arthur Bispo do Rosário: The vertigo art

Between signs and symbols: An economic distinction?

Binary semantic opposition in Debussy

Black and white and read all over: The semiotics of difference and chiaroscuro in Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness

Body as nexus—natural, factual, artifactual, evocative

Cinema and literature: Theoretical studies

Cognitive metaphor and critical rhetoric

Cohesion, competition, and critical group size in social groups

Collective misunderstandings due to misframings: The cases of Orson Welles (1938) and Philipp Jenninger (1988)

Color theory as a contribution to visual semiotics

Communicology and memoria in St. Augustine

Conscious illusions: The problem of the cinematic frame

Contributions of the Stuttgart School to Peircean semiotics

Cooperative organization of Japanese conversation