ISBN:
9781614516354
Language:
German
Pages:
300 S.
Parallel Title:
Print version Sein und Schein : Explorations in Existential Semiotics
DDC:
302.2
Keywords:
Semiotics - Philosophy
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Abstract:
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Description / Table of Contents:
Preface to Sein und Schein; Contents; Part I Philosophy: Varieties of Being; 1 Existential semiotics today: Sein (Being) and Schein (Appearing); 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A return to basic ideas; 1.3 Modalities; 1.4 Dasein and transcendence; 1.5 Turn-around of Dasein; 1.6 Values; 1.7 New types of signs; 1.8 More on transcendence; 1.9 Mimesis; 1.10 The subject reconsidered: BEING; 1.11 Questions by a subject: From BEING to DOING; 1.11.1 Consequences of our varieties of subjectivity; 2 On the appearance or the present structure and existential digressions of the subject; 2.1 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2 More on vertical appearance2.3 More on horizontal appearance; 3 Representation in Semiotics; 3.1 The relation of representation in semiotics; 3.2 Mapping representation; 3.3 Nöth's handbook; 3.4 Representation in philosophy - John Deely; 3.5 Peirce; 3.6 Model theory; 3.7 From cybernetics to cultural semiotics; 3.8 Representation as function; 3.9 The archaeology of Foucault; 3.10 Existential semiotic interpretation; 4 The concept of genre: In general and in music; 4.1 A semiotic approach to genre in general ...; 4.2 ... and inmusic; 4.2.1 Before genres
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2.2 Major genre categories: Art music and popular music4.2.3 Norms and varieties of music; 4.2.4 Genre in musical communication; 4.2.5 Transgressing genres; 4.2.6 Crises of genres; 4.2.7 Cultural reflections; 4.2.8 Classics; 4.2.9 National versus universal; 4.2.10 Social classification and functions; 4.2.11 Genre as classification; 4.2.12 Recent theories; 5 The world and its interpretation; 5.1 World and worlds; 5.1.1 Philosophers; 5.1.2 Artists; 5.1.3 Semioticians; 5.2 Closing thoughts; 6 Signs around Us - Umwelt, Semiosphere and Signscape; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Milieu - Taine
Description / Table of Contents:
6.3 Surrounding/surrounded6.4 New models of communication; 6.5 Umwelt and Uexküll; 6.6 Dasein . . .; 6.7 ... and transcendence; 6.8 Semiosphere, Lotman and Ruskin; 6.9 Heidegger's view; 6.10 Subject and environment; Part II Doing: Society and Culture; 7 Semio-crises in the era of globalisation: Towards a new theory of collective and individual subjectivity; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The lesson of semiocrises; 7.3 Collective subjectivity or identity as a world view; 7.4 Individual subjectivity or the fight between two manners of 'being' in the world; 8 Ideologies manifesting axiologies
Description / Table of Contents:
8.1 Introduction9 Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history, and the counter-current of signs; 9.1 Globalization and transcendence; 9.2 Globalization as the new civilization: Some signs of the time; 9.3 Aesthetics of resistance; 9.3.1 Forces of resistance I: Being; 9.3.2 Forces of resistance II: Memory; 9.3.3 Forces of resistance III: History; 9.4 What are we resisting?; 10 Culture and transcendence; 10.1 The theory in brief; 10.2 Transculturality; 10.3 Criticism of British cultural studies; 10.4 Language games; 10.5 Articulation; 10.6 Subject positions; 10.7 What Foucault said
Description / Table of Contents:
10.8 Action
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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