Existential Semiotics

By: Eero Tarasti

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Hardcover | 22 February 2001

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These essays define the new philosophical field of existential semiotics. Existential semiotics involves an "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. As a member of the Paris School of Semiotics (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 illustratd with examples from high culture - painting, music and literature - as well as from current day media and popular culture, including landscapes, gastronomy, novels, Walt Disney, film advertising as narratives, and post-colonial practices. Signs are examined in their interdisciplinary as well as intertextual connections.

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Tarasti's explanations, analyses and comments of sign processes in art and everyday life might seem amazing at first sight. He is not afraid of heavily speculative and heavily metaphysical thinking. . . . [he] wants to show us that there can be more involved in sign processes than pure conventionality, maybe even something that is beyond the grasp of the Semiotician.34 2004

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Non-Fiction Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Phenomenology & Existentialism Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Philosophy of Language

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Preface: As an Introduction
Philosophical Reflections
On the Paths of Existential Semiotics	p. 3
Signs and Transcendence	p. 17
Endo-/Exogenic Signs, Fields, and Worlds	p. 37
Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Self-Understanding	p. 57
Signs of Anxiety; or, The Problem of the Semiotic Subject	p. 76
In the Forest of Symbols
From Aesthetics to Ethics: Semiotic Observations on the Moral Aspects of Arts, Especially Music	p. 87
The "Structural" and "Existential" Styles in Twentieth-Century Arts	p. 98
On the Authenticity and Inauthenticity of Art	p. 112
The Social and Cultural Field of Signs
On Post-colonial Semiosis	p. 137
Semiotics of Landscapes	p. 154
Poetics of Place (Particularly in Music)	p. 164
Walt Disney and Americanness: An Existential-Semiotical Exercise	p. 172
" ... and you find the right one"; A Narratological Analysis of an Advertising Film	p. 191
Senses, Values - and Media	p. 209
Index	p. 215
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