Table of Contents
Preface to Sein and Schein v
Part I Philosophy: Varieties of Being
1 Existential semiotics today: Sein (Being) and Schein (Appearing) 3
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 A return to basic ideas 4
1.3 Modalities 4
1.4 Dasein and transcendence 5
1.5 Turn-around of Dasein 8
1.6 Values 10
1.7 Newtypes ofsigns 14
1.8 More on transcendence 16
1.9 Mimesis 18
1.10 The subject reconsidered: BEING 21
1.11 Questions by a subject: From BEING to DOING 28
1.11.1 Consequences of our varieties of subjectivity 29
2 On the appearance or the present structure and existential digressions of the subject 39
2.1 Introduction 39
2.2 More on vertical appearance 42
2.3 More on horizontal appearance 50
3 Representation in Semiotics 54
3.1 The relation of representation in semiotics 54
3.2 Mapping representation 55
3.3 Nöth's handbook 57
3.4 Representation in philosophy-John Deely 58
3.5 Peirce 59
3.6 Model theory 60
3.7 From cybernetics to cultural semiotics 61
3.8 Representation as function 63
3.9 The archaeology of Foucault 64
3.10 Existential semiotic interpretation 66
4 The concept of genre: In general and in music 70
4.1 A semiotic approach to genre in general… 70
4.2 … and in music 83
4.2.1 Before genres 83
4.2.2 Major genre categories: Art music and popular music 86
4.2.3 Norms and varieties of music 88
4.2.4 Genre in musical communication 89
4.2.5 Transgressing genres 90
4.2.6 Crises of genres 91
4.2.7 Cultural reflections 92
4.2.8 Classics 93
4.2.9 National versus universal 93
4.2.10 Social classification and functions 95
4.2.11 Genre as classification 97
4.2.12 Recent theories 98
5 The world and its interpretation 100
5.1 World and worlds 100
5.1.1 Philosophers 101
5.1.2 Artists 106
5.1.3 Semioticians 109
5.2 Closing thoughts 111
6 Signs around Us - Urn we It, Semiosphere and Sign scape 113
6.1 Introduction 113
6.2 Milieu - Taine 113
6.3 Surrounding/surrounded 115
6.4 New models of communication 117
6.5 Umwelt and Uexküll 118
6.6 Dasein… 120
6.7 …and transcendence 122
6.8 Semiosphere, Lotman and Ruskin 124
6.9 Heidegger's view 125
6.10 Subject and environment 128
Part II Doing: Society and Culture
7 Semio-crises in the era of globalisation: Towards a new theory of collective and individual subjectivity 133
7.1 Introduction 133
7.2 The lesson of semiocrises 134
7.3 Collective subjectivity or identity as a world view 137
7.4 Individual subjectivity or the fight between two manners of 'being' in the world 141
8 Ideologies manifesting axiologies 144
8.1 Introduction 144
9 Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history, and the counter-current of signs 152
9.1 Globalization and transcendence 152
9.2 Globah2ation as the new civilization: Some signs of the time 154
9.3 Aesthetics of resistance 158
9.3.1 Forces of resistance I: Being 162
9.3.2 Forces of resistance II: Memory 167
9.3.3 Forces of resistance III: History 177
9.4 What are we resisting? 180
10 Culture and transcendence 182
10.1 The theory in brief 184
10.2 Transculturality 185
10.3 Criticism of British cultural studies 187
10.4 Language games 189
10.5 Articulation 190
10.6 Subject positions 192
10.7 What Foucault said 193
10.8 Action 195
10.9 Cultivating 196
10.10 Content and Speculation 198
10.11 The organism 200
10.12 Generation 201
10.13 Nature 202
10.14 Rhizome 203
10.15 Zemic/Zetic 205
10.16 Transfer 206
10.17 Alien-psychic 208
10.18 Conclusion 209
Part III Lesser Arts
11 A proposal for a semiotic theory of performing arts 213
11.1 General observations 213
11.1.1 Skill 214
11.1.2 Theory 214
11.1.3 Time 218
11.1.4 Emotions 221
11.1.5 Intentional body 221
11.1.6 Unpredictability 223
11.1.7 Schein 223
11.2 An existential semiotic theory of performance 227
11.3 Performance in various arts 233
11.3.1 Performance of the text 233
11.3.2 Film performance-analysis 235
11.3.3 Varieties of actor/actress, musician, dancer 237
12 On culinemes, gastrophemes, and other signs of cooking 249
12.1 Introduction 249
12.2 Two historical perspectives 251
12.3 Semiotic questions about food 253
12.4 Cooking as a generative course 256
12.5 An application: cooking in Paris according to Ville Vallgren, Finnish sculptor and gourmet 261
12.6 Conclusion 265
Part IV Heimat
13.A Metaphors of nature and organicism 269
13.A.1 Introduction 269
13.A.2 What semioticians say about nature 269
13.A.3 Auguste Comte 271
13.A.4 German thinkers from Kant to Schiller 272
13.A.5 Différence 276
13.A.6 In biosemiotks 279
13.A.7 Semiogerms 282
13.B Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music 283
13.B.1 On the musically "organic" 283
13.B.2 Sibelius and the idea of the "organic" 294
13.B.3 Organic narrativity 302
14 Finland in the eyes of a semiotician 306
14.1 Introduction 306
Part V Precursors
15 From absolute spirit to the community of interpretation: Josiah Royce (1855-1916), the American classic between Hegel and Peirce 321
15.1 Josiah Royce as a historical figure 321
15.2 Why Hegel? 325
15.3 Back to Royce 330
15.4 Toward the world of interpretation 331
15.5 The moral burden of the individual 334
15.6 Royce's metaphysics and last insights on interpretation 339
16 Victoria Lady Welby - A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli 342
16.1 Introduction 342
16.2 The challenge of originality 343
16.3 The idea of "three" 344
16.4 Royce as Lady Welby's contemporary 345
16.5 Welby's independence as a scholar 346
16.6 Who is a significian? 348
16.7 Problematic language 349
16.8 Metaphors 351
16.9 How to educate our expressive powers 351
16.10 Transcendence 352
17 Vladimir Solovyov 354
17.1 Background 354
17.2 Moral philosophy 357
17.3 Sophia and the World Soul 362
18 Russian formalism in the global semiotics - Precursor of the European branch 367
18.1 Introduction 367
18.2 Wassily Kandinsky 369
18.3 Its key concepts are metaphors from music 371
18.4 Lev Karsavin (1892-1952) 378
18.5 Wilhelm Sesemann 382
18.6 Vladimir Propp 384
18.7 Mikhail Bakhtin 388
19 Wilhelm Sesemann in the context of semiotics 392
19.1 Introduction 392
20 Roland Barthes or the birth of semiotics from the spirit of music 398
21 The right of unfunctionality - Explorations in Ponzio's philosophical semiotics 406
22 Sao Paulo, Helsinki, New Delhi - The life of Joss Luiz Martinez 413
Part VI Practice
23 Can Semiotics be organized? Observations over a 40-year period 423
23.1 Introduction 423
23.2 Beginning: Lévi-Strauss, Greimas… and Paris 424
23.3 The Impact of Thomas A. Sebeok 425
23.4 Semiotics expands 427
23.5 Imatra starts: Founding of the ISI 428
23.6 IASS Continues 431
23.7 The World Congress in Finland 433
23.8 From Italy to Bulgaria and Estonia 435
23.9 The Finnish Network University of Semiotics as an experiment 436
23.10 SEMKNOW 438
23.11 What do we want? 439
Literature 441
Index 455
