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 categ...

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