Transcending Signs: Essays in Existential Semiotics

By Eero and Tarasti

Existential semiotics is a new paradigm which combines classical semiotics with continental philosophy. It does not mean a return to existentialism, albeit philosophers from Hegel and Kierkegaard to Heidegger, Jaspers and Sartre are its sources of inspiration. It introduces completely new sign categories and concepts to the field, recasting the whole of semiotics, communication and signification as integral to a transcendental art. The volume contains essays on music, the voice, silence, calligraphy, metaphysics, myth, aesthetics, entropy, cultural heritage, film, the Bible, among other subjects.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110789043
• ISBN13: 9783110789041
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 1080 Pages
• Weight: 3.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary