Existential Semiotics

These essays define this new philosophical field.

List of contents

Contents

Part One: Philosophical Reflections

On the Paths of Existential Semiotics
Signs and Transcendence
Endo-/Exogenic Signs, Fields, and Worlds
Understanding, Misunderstandings, and Self-Understanding
Signs of Anxiety; or the Problem of Semiotic Subject

Part Two: In the Forest of Symbols

From Aesthetics to Ethics
The "Structural" and "Existential" Styles in 20th Century Arts
On the Authenticity and Inauthenticity of Art

Part Three: The Social and Cultural Field of Signs

On Post-colonial Semiosis
Semiotics of Landscapes
Poetics of Place
Walt Disney and Americanness
"...and you find the right one"
Senses, Values-and Media

About the author

Eero Tarasti

Summary

Defines the philosophical field of existential semiotics. Existential semiotics involves a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. There is a hermeneutic and phenomenological aspect to the work. Its sources are in Husserl, Schutz, Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Jaspers, and Heidegger.

Product details

• Authors: Eero Tarasti, Tarasti Eero
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2001
• EAN: 9780253337221
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33722-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Hardcov; Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Hardcov
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Literaturtheorie, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology