Existential semiotics
"Existential semiotics posits an a priori state of signs; it studies the ways in which signs are fixated into objective entities. Tarasti's work is hermeneutic and phenomenological, with its sources in Husserl, Schutz, Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Jaspers, and Heidegger. As a member of the Paris School of Semiotics (and following the lead of A.J. Greimas, in particular). Tarasti is seeking less-categorical, less-Cartesian approaches. He sees semiotics in transition, shift, rupt…
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- Full title :Existential semiotics / Eero Tarasti.
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"Existential semiotics posits an a priori state of signs; it studies the ways in which signs are fixated into objective entities. Tarasti's work is hermeneutic and phenomenological, with its sources in Husserl, Schutz, Merleau-Ponty, Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Jaspers, and Heidegger. As a member of the Paris School of Semiotics (and following the lead of A.J. Greimas, in particular). Tarasti is seeking less-categorical, less-Cartesian approaches. He sees semiotics in transition, shift, rupture, and flux, something which is "becoming" rather than "being."
His theoretical ideas are illustrated with examples from high culture - painting, music, and literature - as well as from contemporary media and popular culture, including landscapes, gastronomy, novels, Walt Disney films, and post-colonial practices. Signs are examined in their interdisciplinary as well as their intertextual connections in this thoughtful collection of essays."--Jacket
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2000.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (218 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780253028532, 0253028531
- oclc:ocn606543997
- LC Classification:P99
- Dewey Decimal:401/.41
Table of Contents
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; PART ONE Philosophical Reflections; 1 On the Paths of Existential Semiotics; 2 Signs and Transcendence; 3 Endo-/Exogenic Signs, Fields, and Worlds; 4 Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Self-Understanding; 5 Signs of Anxiety; or, The Problem of the Semiotic Subject; PART TWO In the Forest of Symbols; 6 From Aesthetics to Ethics SEMIOTIC OBSERVATIONS ON THE MORAL ASPECTS OF ARTS, ESPECIALLY MUSIC; 7 The ""Structural"" and ""Existential"" Styles in Twentieth-Century Arts; 8 On the Authenticity and Inauthenticity of Art.
PART THREE The Social and Cultural Field of Signs9 On Post-colonial Semiosis; 10 Semiotics of Landscapes; 11 Poetics of Place (Particularly in Music); 12 Walt Disney and Americanness AN EXISTENTIAL-SEMIOTICAL EXERCISE; 13 "" . . and you find the right one"" A NARRATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF AN ADVERTISING FILM; 14 Senses, Values-and Media; INDEX.
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