Transcending Signs - Essays in Existential Semiotics

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.

About the author

Eero Tarasti
, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eero Tarasti (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2024
• EAN: 9783111627120
• ISBN: 978-3-11-162712-0
• No. of pages: 1058
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 63 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 1716 g
• Illustrations: 102 b/w and 42 col. ill., 8 b/w tbl.
• Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Philosophie, Semiotik, Sprachphilosophie, Semiotik und Semiologie, Philosophy, Strukturalismus und Post-Strukturalismus, transzendental, Semiotics, Semiotics / semiology, General studies, Paperback Project, Existential, Transcendental