Record Nr.

UNINA9910154725403321

Autore

Tarasti Eero

Titolo

Existential Semiotics / / Eero Tarasti

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Bloomington, [Indiana] ; ; Indianapolis, [Indiana] : , : Indiana University Press, , 2000
©2000

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 pages)

Collana

Advances in Semiotics

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Semiotics - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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 Signs -- 9 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.

Sommario/riassunto

These essays define this new philosophical field.