Author

Publication

2000 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana

Language

English

Word Count

54,500 words, Guess

Page Count

218 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL6780620M
  • ISBN-100253337224
  • OCLC Control Number43567594
  • Library of Congress Control Number00026810
  • LibraryThing1988717
and 1 more
  • Goodreads3335073

Classifications

  • DDC401/.41
  • LCCP99 .T29 2000

Description

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

SemioticsPhilosophySemiotics -- Philosophy.

Series Statement

  • Advances in semiotics

Other Editions

  • Existential semioticsIndiana University Press2000-01-01

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