Semiotics Continues to Astonish : : Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs / / ed. by Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull, Susan Petrilli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Myrdene,; Behar, Lisa Block de,; Brier, Søren,; Cobley, Paul,; Cunningham, Donald,; Danesi, Marcel,; Deely, Brooke Williams,; Deely, John,; Gorlée, Dinda L.,; Hoffmeyer, Jesper,; Johansen, Jørgen Dines,; Kull, Kalevi,; Mladenov, Ivan,; Neţ, Mariana,; Pern, Tanel,; Petrilli, Susan,; Ponzio, Augusto,; Popova, Maria,; Raudla, Tuuli,; Sebeok, Thomas A.,; Tarasti, Eero,; Voigt, Vilmos,; Watt, W. C.,; merrell, floyd,
• HerausgeberIn: Cobley, Paul,; Deely, John,; Kull, Kalevi,; Petrilli, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (526 p.) :; frontispiece

Peirce's (1906) proposal that the universe as a whole, even if it does not consist exclusively of signs, is yet everywhere perfused with signs, is a thesis that better than any other sums up the life and work of Thomas A. Sebeok, "inventor" of semiotics as we know it today. Semiotics - the doctrine of signs - has a long and intriguing history that extends back well beyond the last century, two and a half millennia to Hippocrates of Cos. It ranges through the teachings of Augustine, Scholastic philosophy, the work of Peirce and Saussure. Yet a fully-fledged doctrine of signs, with many horizons for the future, was the result of Sebeok's work in the twentieth century. The massive influence of this work, as well as Sebeok's convening of semiotic projects and encouragement of a huge number of researchers globally, which, in turn, set in train countless research projects, is difficult to document and has not been assessed until now. This volume, using the testimonies of key witnesses and participants in the semiotic project, offers a picture of how Sebeok, through his development of knowledge of endosemiotics, phytosemiotics, biosemiotics and sociosemiotics, enabled semiotics in general to redraw the boundaries of science and the humanities as well as nature and culture.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role -- Part I. Essays -- Chapter 2: Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence -- Chapter 3: When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be -- Chapter 4: Ethology and the Sebeokian way from zoosemiotics to cyber(bio)semiotics -- Chapter 5: Sebeok’s panopticon -- Chapter 6: The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok -- Chapter 7: Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century -- Chapter 8: Traduttore traditore? -- Chapter 9: Astonishing life -- Chapter 10: Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts -- Chapter 11: The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology -- Chapter 12: Tom’s often neglected other theoretical source -- Chapter 13: We got to know his method -- Chapter 14: About a master of signs starting from The Sign & Its Masters -- Chapter 15: A Tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok -- Chapter 16: Thomas A. Sebeok, Hybrid Joke-teller -- Chapter 17: Thomas A. Sebeok, A portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician -- Chapter 18: Sebők Tamás – Identity and integrity -- Chapter 19: Birth of a notion -- Chapter 20: Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics -- Part II. Vignettes and stories -- Chapter 21: Ubiquity -- Chapter 22: Un Sacco di Cane -- Chapter 23: Tom Sebeok, Hoosier -- Chapter 24: Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time -- Chapter 25: Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok -- Chapter 26: Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok – This is a way of thinking -- Chapter 27: Summing up: In lieu of an introduction -- Part III. Letters -- Chapter 28: Anderson letter of 13 May 2002 -- Chapter 29: Eco letter of 11 January 2002 -- Chapter 30: Hamp letter of 2 January 2002 -- Chapter 31: Remak letter of 24 December 2001 -- Chapter 32: Watt letter of 5 January 2002 -- Part IV. The Tartu connection -- Chapter 33: The Tartu connection: Thomas Sebeok’s correspondence with Juri Lotman -- Part V. Final resting place -- Burial site marker and co-ordinates -- Part VI. Photographs -- Twenty-seven pictures -- Notes on contributors -- Index