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A walk through the history of Spanish thought influenced by Uexküll
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 61-86
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0064
Culture and Communication
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- An Anthology of Major and Lesser-Known Works by Yuri Lotman
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Other title information: Signs in Flux
Notes: Translated from Russian by Benjamin Paloff
Annotation: This collection provides a stand-alone primer to his intellectual legacy in both semiotics and cultural history. It includes new translations of some of his major pieces as well as works that have never been published in English. The collection brings Lotman into the orbit of contemporary concerns such as gender, memory, performance, world literature, and urban life. It is aimed at students from various disciplines and is augmented by an introduction and notes that elucidate the relevant contexts.
Identifier: 9781644693872
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El arsenal de Clío
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Other title information: el problema de la escritura de la historia en la cultura occidental, 1880-1990
Annotation: The book explores the question of how history should be written. It uses different frameworks, borrowing from philosophy, linguistics, politology and other fields from the humanities and social sciences
Identifier: 9788412007084
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A study by Umberto Eco and his colleagues on the history of early zoosemiotics: Commentary and bibliography
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 383-391
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.11
Fast Times and Excellent Adventures
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Other title information: The Surprising History of the '80s Teen Movie
Annotation: The book explores the history of the 1980's phenomena of the teen movie genre, showing the behind the scenes of select movies and actors as well as the cultural and social context.
Identifier: 9781472123725
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From Body Fuel to Universal Poison
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Other title information: Cultural History of Meat: 1900-The Present
Annotation: This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food. Half storytelling and half historic work, it analyzes the way in which humans have dealt with the idea of eating animals in the Western world, from 1900 to the present.
Identifier: 9783319720852
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Asmuo ir idėjos
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Annotation: The book is intended to comprehensively present the most important and most important part of the theoretical legacy of the famous semiotician, mythologist, linguist, culture and society critic and essayist Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917-1992), without which he would not be what he was, is and will remain in the history of humanitarian and social thinking. – his semiotics research project and extensions of this project. The principles of semiotics and its areas of study are critically reviewed, and the philosophical and personal existential dimension and meaning of Greimas' thinking are revealed. His closest students and collaborators, as well as later followers in France, Italy, Lithuania and elsewhere, describe the most important varieties and branches of semiotics after Greimas, their current state and future prospects.
Identifier: 9786094700880
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A History of the History of Cybernetics: An Agenda for an Ever-changing Present
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 1: 50th Anniversary Retrospective of the ASC
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A meta-theoretical approach to the history and theory of semiotics
In: Semiotica 2016, Issue 213
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- 1-42
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2015-0100
Animal Umwelten in a Changing World
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Other title information: Zoosemiotic perspectives
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This book is a collective effort. Its authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. The specific chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other authors of the book so that the whole collection forms an integrated set of view-points.
Identifier: 9789949772803
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Meaning, Narrativity, and the Real
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Other title information: The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education IV
Annotation: This book examines the concept of meaning and our general understanding of reality in a legal and philosophical context. Starting from the premise that meaning is a matter of linguistic and other forms of articulation, it considers the inherent philosophical consequences. Part I presents Klages’, Derrida’s, Von Hofmannsthal’s and Wittgenstein’s explorations of silence as a source of articulation and meaning. Debates about 20th century psychologism gave the attitude concept a pivotal role; it illustrates the importance of the discovery that a word is globally qualified as ‘the basic unit of language’. This is mirrored in the fact that we understand reality as a matter of particles and thus interpret the real as a component of an all-embracing ‘particle story’. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of legal semiotics related to the chapter’s theme: for instance on the meaning of a Judge’s ‘Saying for Law’, on law students training in varying attitudes or on the ties between law and language. Part II of the book illustrates our general understanding of reality as a matter of particles and partitioning, and examines texts that prove that particle thinking is basic for our meaning concept. It shows that physics, quantum theory, holism, and modern brain research focusing on human linguistic capabilities, confirm their ties to the particle story. In contrast, the book concludes that partitions and particles are neither a fact in the history of the cosmos nor a determinant of knowledge and the sciences, and that meaning is a process: a constellation rather than a fixation. This is manifest once one understands meaning as the result of continuously changing attitudes, which create our narratives on cosmos and creation. The book proposes a new key for meaning: a linguistic occurrence anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.
Identifier: 9783319281742
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The problem of the modern and tradition
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Other title information: early Soviet musical culture and the musicological theory of Boris Asafiev (1884–1949)
Annotation: This is the first English language analytical and critical monograph to examine Asafiev's literary output during 1916-1930. The author explores Asafiev's critical and musicological works both against the backfrop of Russian cultural history, an within the Western Europen intellectual historical context. She demonstrates how Asafiev became an established Soviet cultural theorietician of music, a celebrated but also a persecuted Soviet musicologist.
Identifier: 9789526825779
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A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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Annotation: This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science speciality evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological-sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chinese biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.
Identifier: 9783319180922
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Describing the past: Tartu-Moscow School ideas on history, historiography, and the historian's craft
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 269-280
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.08
Sociocultural crossings and borders
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Other title information: musical microhistories
Annotation: In the current global world the interaction between cultures penetrates into musical practices and discourses, radically affecting the sociocultural imagination and altering the established shapes of cultural territories. Yet the history of music demonstrates that the dynamics of cultural encounters and segregations has always been a key factor in the formation of individual and collective identities and in the understanding of other cultures. Cultural expansions and, conversely, the trajectories of displacement of cultural expression are to a varied extent affected by the political, economic, technological and other dimensions of dissemination of musical practices and traditions. In the modern age, the extramusical factors are of equal significance to textual (creation) and contextual (dissemination and reception) configurations of sociocultural interactions. The understanding of sociocultural interactions and borders plays an important role in the appropriation of the musical past and the revival of cultural memory.
Identifier: 9786098071290
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Mathematics as a Modeling System
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Other title information: a Semiotic Approach
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specific kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two have rarely been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in the book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling. The purpose of this book is to do exactly that since it is our view that mathematics is a de facto modelling system in the semiotic sense and it is our hope that from this it will be possible to gain considerable insights into how mathematics works and achieves the discoveries and forms of knowledge that it has since the dawn of antiquity. Hopefully, this will allow both mathematicians and semioticians to pursue similar or analogous research objectives with regard to understanding the biological and cognitive etiology of sign systems and their connection to reality.
Identifier: 9789949326105
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A History of Psycholinguistics
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Other title information: The Pre-Chomskyan Era
Annotation: How do we manage to speak and understand language? How do children acquire these skills and how does the brain support them? These psycholinguistic issues have been studied for more than two centuries. Though many Psycholinguists tend to consider their history as beginning with the Chomskyan "cognitive revolution" of the late 1950s/1960s, the history of empirical psycholinguistics actually goes back to the end of the 18th century. This is the first book to comprehensively treat this "pre-Chomskyan" history. It tells the fascinating history of the doctors, pedagogues, linguists and psychologists who created this discipline, looking at how they made their important discoveries about the language regions in the brain, about the high-speed accessing of words in speaking and listening, on the child's invention of syntax, on the disruption of language in aphasic patients and so much more. The book is both a history of ideas as well of the men and women whose intelligence, brilliant insights, fads, fallacies, cooperations, and rivalries created this discipline. Psycholinguistics has four historical roots, which, by the end of the 19th century, had merged. By then, the discipline, usually called the psychology of language, was established. The first root was comparative linguistics, which raised the issue of the psychological origins of language. The second root was the study of language in the brain, with Franz Gall as the pioneer and the Broca and Wernicke discoveries as major landmarks. The third root was the diary approach to child development, which emerged from Rousseau's Émile. The fourth root was the experimental laboratory approach to speech and language processing, which originated from Franciscus Donders' mental chronometry. Wilhelm Wundt unified these four approaches in his monumental Die Sprache of 1900. These four perspectives of psycholinguistics continued into the 20th century but in quite divergent frameworks. There was German consciousness and thought psychology, Swiss/French and Prague/Viennese structuralism, Russian and American behaviorism, and almost aggressive holism in aphasiology. As well as reviewing all these perspectives, the book looks at the deep disruption of the field during the Third Reich and its optimistic, multidisciplinary re-emergence during the 1950s with the mathematical theory of communication as a major impetus. A tour de force from one of the seminal figures in the field, this book will be essential reading for all linguists, psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and psychologists with an interest in language.
Identifier: 9780199653669
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Are You Stupid?
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Other title information: A Second Revolution Might Save America From Herself
Annotation: In the most dynamic and prosperous country on Earth-the USA-stupidity overshadows the intellectual and technical accomplishments that other nations envy. If Americans continue to delude themselves about their country, the USA will end up like the USSR: imploding from within. This work analyzes the systemic aspects of America's current condition: across-the-board-dumbing down through media and in education; growing dependence on and demand for entitlements; corruption in the private and political domains; chronic cronyism; the opportunistic engineering of reality. Consequently, individual and collective stupidity not only leads to crises, it renders the USA impotent in dealing with the challenges of the fast dynamics characteristic of our time of post-industrial capitalism oriented towards consumption. The causes for this state of stupidity are examined: the people's willful ignorance of the nation's true history and development; an economic system that does not foster a sense of citizenry; cultivated mediocrity in education and entertainment; corruption of justice; rampant consumerism; a state of prosperity that lulls the people into complacency. Taking the rewards of change for granted, Americans no longer understand what change entails. Gazing into the rear-view mirror of history in search of answers, they forget that the USA was founded in a world more similar to the 1st century than the 21st. Americans will have to start fighting their own stupidity instead of further exhausting the country's (and the world's) resources in wars and entitlement measures. America has to "reset" herself, within an authentic democratic process, on a foundation appropriate to the integrated world of the global information age.
Identifier: 9781490525655
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Beginnings of the Semiotics of Culture
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Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Key historical texts of semiotics of culture in Tartu Moscow School
Identifier: 9789949323234
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Gatherings in Biosemiotics
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Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This is a special commemorative edition of Gatherings in Biosemiotics. It includes new material on the basics of biosemiotics, as well as a complete history of the Gatherings as told by their organizers. The first part, Approaches to Biosemiotics, includes five short papers on the importance of semiotics for biology. The second part, History of the Gatherings, begins with two retrospectives, by Jesper Hoffmeyer and Donald Favareau. The third part features nearly the entire set of submitted abstracts for this year's conference.
Identifier: 9789949320486
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From semantics to semiotics: A page of early Soviet intellectual history
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 224-235
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.08
Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 290-313
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.11
Russian Formalist Criticism
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Other title information: Four essays
Annotation: College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.
Identifier: 9780803254602
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Symbol i Muzyka
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Annotation: This book is an entry into the symbolicism of music. The book consists of three chapters. In the first, I deal with the concept of the symbol itself. I discuss its genesis, history changing understanding, and above all - it's functioning in contemporary thought in such fields as sociology, cultural anthropology, semiotics or semiology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and musicology. In the second chapter I present the problem of symbol and meaning in European music in a historical outline. The third chapter is my analysis of musical interpretations.
Identifier: 9788362743018
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The Lithuanian SSR Society of Art Photography (1969-1989)
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Other title information: an image production network
Notes: translated by Jurij Dobriakov
Annotation: This book is about the power of photography and the network it formed in everday life and art of Lithuania in 1069-1989.
Identifier: 9786094470332
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The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education
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Annotation: This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as “sign”, “symbol” or “legal language,” demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople. These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can “say the law,” or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us. The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.
Identifier: 9789400713406
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Music breaks in
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Other title information: essays on music radio and radio music in Finland
Annotation: This book brings together research reports and essays on radio music in Finland. The main focus in the writings is one the breakthrough of popular music in local radioscape. The chapters reaise a number of highly important issues in the resent history of radio breoadcasting in Finland: regulation of broadcasting, ideologies of local radio, concentration of ownership, homogenisation of musical contant, patterns of change in radio speech, and processes of music selection. This book is an outcome of the reseach project "Music Cultures and Corporate Cultures: Changes in Music Broadcasting in Finland, 2963-2005", financed by the Academy of Finland.
Identifier: 9789514479724
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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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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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- 513-514
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.11
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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The origins of meaning
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Other title information: Language in the Light of Evolution
Annotation: Hurford integrates findings from ethology and neuroscience with concepts from philosophy and linguistics to make an explicit and convincing case that animals have rich concepts, and thus that meaning predated language
Identifier: 9780199207855
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Universitas Tartuensis
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Annotation: History of University of Tartu and the Tartu city
Identifier: 9789985405222
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Varietas Et Concordia
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- Essays in Honour of Pekka Pesonen
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Annotation: Slavica Helsingiensia is published by the Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at Helsinki University. The series was founded in 1983, and 31 volumes have appeared so far.... The volume is dedicated to Professor Pekka Pesonen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. It includes 38 articles, written by Professor Pesonen’s friends and colleagues – Finnish, Estonian, Russian and American scholars and also representatives of Professor Pesonen’s Finnish School. The topics covered by the articles range from general and theoretical questions concerning mainly Russian literature, culture and semiotics to specific and detailed analyses of Russian literary his-tory. The thematic variety (varietas) reflects Professor Pesonen’s keen interest in the study of literature and culture, the semiotics of Russian cultural history and the analysis of Texts (literary and cultural) within their social contexts. But his interests never have been bounded only by the pure scientific goals and Pekka Pesonen is widely known as a translator, literary critic, great ad-mirer of Russian culture and a part of it himself. The unity and agreement (concordia) of these different approaches is to be found in а search for understanding, – understanding literature, un-derstanding the specifics of Russian culture. Ultimately, it is а quest for understanding the emer-gence and the narration of Texts in history.
Identifier: 9789521038310
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La Musique et Les Signes
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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
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Music and the Arts
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Other title information: Volume II
Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.
Identifier: 9525431096
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The Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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Augustine and Poinsot
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Other title information: The protosemiotic development
Notes: A prepublication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: Explores the concept of the sign before the formal recognisiton of semiotics, focusing on Augustine and John Poinsot
Identifier: 954896466X
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Defining the semiotic animal
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Other title information: A postmodern definiton of "human being" to supersede the modern definition as "res cogitans"
Notes: Fourth and last publication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: The book starts with a historical overview of general semiotics and then transitions into zoosemiotics and biosemiotics, focusing on perception in animals and humans with a goal of defining what it means to be human
Identifier: 9548964678
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History and significance of Jakob von Uexküll and of his institute in Hamburg
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 35-72
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.02
Signs and the design of life – Uexküll’s significance today: A symposium, its significant history and future
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 379-383
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.19
The Organic Codes
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- An Introduction to Semantic Biology
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Annotation: Marcello Barbieri sets out his theory that there are many more organic codes in nature than the genetic code. The existence of these codes can be used to explain the major steps in the evolutionary history of life, and processes like epigenesis and complexity generation in embryos
Identifier: 0521824141
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Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
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Transformation of public text in totalitarian system
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Other title information: a socio-semiotic study of Soviet censorship practices in Estonian radio in the 1980s
Annotation: This study analyses the production of Soviet journalistic text. It focuses on editorial-censorship transformation in texts made during the final stage of textual preparation in journalistic institutions of Soviet Estonia at the beginning of the 1980s.
Identifier: 9512920719
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New science
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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Identifier: 0140435697
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History, mentalities, justifications: The case of post-war Romanian memoirs
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 387-406
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.387
The Perception of the Environment
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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill
Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.
Identifier: 0415228328
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Diachrony and synchrony in writing Russian literary history
In: Sign System Studies 1999, Volume 27
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- 271-291
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1999.27.14
Editor’s note: Towards a prehistory of biosemiotics
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.1
On the history of joining bio with semio: F.S.Rothschild and the biosemiotic rules
In: Sign System Studies 1999, Volume 27
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1999.27.06
Communism national & international
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Annotation: This book addresses the old but controversial question about the extent of uniformity in world communism. Traditional themes like the general party line and the role of prominent personalities are examined from post Cold War perspectives. From political and organisational questions the approach is extended to ideological, cultural and social aspects.
Identifier: 9517100795
Status: Available