Transcending Signs : : Essays in Existential Semiotics / / ed. by Eero Tarasti.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ahonen, Pertti,; Bankov, Kristian,; Bauters, Merja,; Berruti, Massimo,; Castro Monteiro, Ricardo Nogueira de,; Charles, Daniel,; Codoban, Aurel,; Dasgupta, Sayantan,; Evans, Tristian,; Felicissmo, Rodrigo,; Fujak, Július,; Gamrat, Małgorzata,; Geybullayeva, Rahilya,; Grabócz, Márta,; Grajter, Malgorzata,; Grimalt, Joan,; Haukka, Aleksi,; Helkala-Koivisto, Sari,; Ipsen, Guido,; Jacono, Jean-Marie,; Kajannes, Katriina,; Kupiainen, Terri,; Kuusamo, Altti,; Landowski, Eric,; Lehto, Otto,; Leone, Massimo,; Liu, Yuan,; Marcus, Solomon,; Martinelli, Dario,; Mastroianni, Roberto,; Melo, Cleisson,; Motiekaitis, Ramūnas,; Muotio, Leena,; Mälkiä, Reijo,; Navickaitė-Martinelli, Lina,; Ojala, Juha,; Onur, Ayşe,; Onur, Zeynep,; Pessarrodona, Aurèlia,; Petrilli, Susan,; Pihlström, Sami,; Piludu, Vesa Matteo,; Ponzio, Augusto,; Reza Shairi, Hamid,; Rosato, Paolo,; Rousselot, Mathias,; Röhe, Daniel,; Santangelo, Antonio,; Spampinato, Francesco,; Tarasti, Eero,; Thibault, Mattia,; Tønnessen, Morten,; Valsiner, Jaan,; Vecchione, Bernard,; Voigt, Vilmos,; Wąsik, Elżbieta Magdalena,; Wąsik, Zdzisław,; Yan, Xiaofang,
• HerausgeberIn: Tarasti, Eero,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXII, 1058 p.)

Existential semiotics is a new paradigm which combines classical semiotics with continental philosophy. It does not mean a return to existentialism, albeit philosophers from Hegel and Kierkegaard to Heidegger, Jaspers and Sartre are its sources of inspiration. It introduces completely new sign categories and concepts to the field, recasting the whole of semiotics, communication and signification as integral to a transcendental art. The volume contains essays on music, the voice, silence, calligraphy, metaphysics, myth, aesthetics, entropy, cultural heritage, film, the Bible, among other subjects.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface to the anthology Transcending Signs -- Contents -- Figure list -- Finnish Baroque of existential semiotics: Eero Tarasti’s musical synthesis of the voluptuous dance of signs -- Above and beneath of existential semiotics? -- Exact sciences and the semiotics of existence -- Voice as transcendence and otherness -- The Transcendental and the Transcendent -- The metaphysical system of existential semiotics -- Being, resistance and post-truth -- From semiotic pragmatism to existential semiotics -- Structural, yet existential -- Prolegomena on the semiotics of silence (from Jankélévitch to Tarasti) -- Myth, music and postmodernity -- XX century philosophical paradigms of Japan and the West: A view from Greimassian perspective -- Thought and consciousness in language as prerequisites for the existential-identity perception of the human self -- Umwelt, Lebenswelt, Dasein & monde vécu – (de)constructing the semiotic cosmology of human existentiality -- Aesthetics and human praxis. Notes on the existential semiotics of Eero Tarasti -- Eero Tarasti, existential semiotics, music, and mind. On the existential and cognitive notions of situation -- Cosmologies of life after Peirce, Heidegger and Darwin -- Existential semiotics, semiosis and emotions -- The Plane of Dasein. Existential Semiotics and the problem of the medium -- Existential universals. Biosemiosis and existential semiosis -- Memories of the body and pre-signity in music: Points of contact between Existential Semiotics and Globality of Languages -- The existential question between musical and linguistic signification -- Growth and entropy in semiosis: Signs coming full circle -- Creativity in existential semiotics and psychoanalysis -- Ethnomethodological, symbolic interactionist, semiotic and existential micro-foundations of research on institutions -- “Disturbing quiet people” – on the hyper-bureaucratization and corporatization of universities -- The modes of being inside (or outside) the value fragment: The application of Tarasti’s theory of subject, transcendence and modalities of self to the consumer research -- Existential semiotics and sociology of music -- Destruction of cultural heritages: The case of Jerusalem in the Light of Jeremiah’s prophecies -- From identity to transcendence: A semiotic approach to the survival of the Carolingian cycle in the Brazilian cultural heritage -- Saudade: A semiotic study of the cultural episteme of Brazilian existence -- Semiolinguistic look on mythology, cultural history and meanings of places in Azerbaijan -- Ludo Ergo Sum: Play, existentialism and the ludification of culture -- Uncertain signifiers: ‘An Affective Phantasy’ in Jacopo Pontormo’s Joseph in Egypt -- Existential being of an artist -- An essay on the Persian calligraphy in the light of the theory of existential semiotics by Eero Tarasti -- Transcending violence: Artistic interpretations of the myths of Kullervo from the Kalevala to Tero Saarinen -- Existential soundtracks: Analysing semiotic meanings in minimalist and post-minimal music -- Existential choices of existential signs. Love stories, structuralism, and existential semiotics -- Exploration on the construction of existential semiotic theory of film criticism -- The transcendent arithmetic of Jesus: An exercise in semiotic reading -- Descriptions of death in the Book of Job -- Memory in Eero Tarasti’s novel Europe/ Perhaps -- Varieties of masculine subjectivity in the Finnish modern literature according to Eero Tarasti’s Zemic-model -- H.P. Lovecraft’s subjectivity: an existential semiotic perspective -- Structure and meaning in music. A dialogue with Greimas -- Existential semiotics and musical hermeneutics: On musical sense advention -- Lohengrin by Wagner. Existential narrative-analysis of the Prelude to act I -- The emergence of individual subjects in Western music -- Existential semiotics and correla(c)tivity of (non-conventional) music (Personal retrospection) -- When a few Me-Tones meet: Beethoven à la russe -- In the quest of compositional matrices for music themes concerning landscape: Exploring senses as a means for creative processes. Villa-Lobos and his existential signs -- Musical arrangement and literary translation as signs: Preserving and renewing cultural heritages -- Gustav Mahler’s Wunderhorn orchestral songs: A topical analysis and a semiotic square -- Beyond the signs: Art and an artist’s life in Hector Berlioz’s Opus 14 -- The singing body in a zemic approach: The case of Miguel Garrido -- Notes on contributors -- Person index -- Subject index