Sein und Schein : : Explorations in Existential Semiotics / / Eero Tarasti.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Tarasti, Eero,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (466 p.)

Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification and communication. This book develops its theory further starting from the continental philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Jaspers, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre) on one hand, yet remaining also faithful to the tradition of the European semiotics, particularly the Paris school.From the notions of being, doing and appearing the study applies them to crucial social problems of the contemporary world, and moreover to various so-called 'lesser arts' like performance and gastronomy. It also introduces some precursors of the approach.The book represents what can be called neosemiotics, the search for new theories and fields of the discipline.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface to Sein und Schein -- Contents -- Part I: Philosophy: Varieties of Being -- 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 -- Part II: Doing: Society and Culture -- 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 -- Part III: Lesser Arts -- Chapter 11. A proposal for a semiotic theory of performing arts -- Chapter 12. On culinemes, gastrophemes, and other signs of cooking -- Part IV: Heimat -- 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 -- Part V: Precursors -- 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. São Paulo, Helsinki, New Delhi – The life of José Luiz Martinez -- Part VI: Practice -- Chapter 23. Can Semiotics be organized? Observations over a 40-year period -- Literature -- Index