: Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull, Susan Petrilli
: Semiotics Continues to Astonish Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110254389
: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 168.70
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: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
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< >A fully-fledged doctrine of signs, with many horizons for the future, was the result of Thomas A. Sebeok's work in the twentieth century. This volume, using the testimonies of key witnesses and participants in the semiotic project, offers a picture of how Sebeok, through his development of knowledge of endosemiotics, phytosemiotics, biosemiotics and sociosemiotics, enabled semiotics in general to redraw the boundaries of science and the humanities as well as nature and culture.



< >Paul Cobley, London Metropolitan University, UK;John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA; Kalevi Kull, University of Tartu, Estonia; Susan Petrilli, University of Bari, Italy.
Contents10
Chapter 1. Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role14
Part I. Essays32
Chapter 2. Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence34
Chapter 3. When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be44
Chapter 4. Ethology and the Sebeokian way from zoosemiotics to cyber(bio)semiotics54
Chapter 5. Sebeok’s panopticon98
Chapter 6. The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok128
Chapter 7. Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century136
Chapter 8. Traduttore traditore?174
Chapter 9. Astonishing life204
Chapter 10. Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts220
Chapter 11. The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology236
Chapter 12. Tom’s often neglected other theoretical source264
Chapter 13. We got to know his method294
Chapter 14. About a master of signs starting from The Sign294
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Chapter 15. A tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok320
Chapter 16. Thomas A. Sebeok, hybrid joke-teller344
Chapter 17. Thomas A. Sebeok, a portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician356
Chapter 18. Sebok Tamás – Identity and integrity368
Chapter 19. Birth of a notion378
Chapter 20. Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics384
Part II. Vignettes and stories432
Chapter 21. Ubiquity434
Chapter 22. Un Sacco di Cane438
Chapter 23. Tom Sebeok, Hoosier440
Chapter 24. Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time444
Chapter 25. Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok448
Chapter 26. Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok – This is a way of thinking458
Chapter 27. Summing up: In lieu of an introduction464
Part III. Letters474
Chapter 28. Anderson letter of 13 May 2002472
Chapter 29. Eco letter of 11 January 2002478
Chapter 30. Hamp letter of 2 January 2002480
Chapter 31. Remak letter of 24 December 2001482
Chapter 32. Watt letter of 5 January 2002484
Part IV. The Tartu connection486
Chapter 33. The Tartu connection: Sebeok’s correspondence with Juri Lotman488
Part V. Final resting place498
Part VI. Photographs502
Notes on contributors518
Index528