Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs

Frontmatter --
Contents --
Chapter 1: Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role --
Part I. Essays --
Chapter 2: Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence --
Chapter 3: When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be --
Chapter 4: Ethology and the Sebeokian way from zoosemiotics to cyber(bio)semiotics --
Chapter 5: Sebeok’s panopticon --
Chapter 6: The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok --
Chapter 7: Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century --
Chapter 8: Traduttore traditore? --
Chapter 9: Astonishing life --
Chapter 10: Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts --
Chapter 11: The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology --
Chapter 12: Tom’s often neglected other theoretical source --
Chapter 13: We got to know his method --
Chapter 14: About a master of signs starting from The Sign & Its Masters --
Chapter 15: A Tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok --
Chapter 16: Thomas A. Sebeok, Hybrid Joke-teller --
Chapter 17: Thomas A. Sebeok, A portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician --
Chapter 18: Sebők Tamás – Identity and integrity --
Chapter 19: Birth of a notion --
Chapter 20: Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics --
Part II. Vignettes and stories --
Chapter 21: Ubiquity --
Chapter 22: Un Sacco di Cane --
Chapter 23: Tom Sebeok, Hoosier --
Chapter 24: Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time --
Chapter 25: Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok --
Chapter 26: Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok – This is a way of thinking --
Chapter 27: Summing up: In lieu of an introduction --
Part III. Letters --
Chapter 28: Anderson letter of 13 May 2002 --
Chapter 29: Eco letter of 11 January 2002 --
Chapter 30: Hamp letter of 2 January 2002 --
Chapter 31: Remak letter of 24 December 2001 --
Chapter 32: Watt letter of 5 January 2002 --
Part IV. The Tartu connection --
Chapter 33: The Tartu connection: Thomas Sebeok’s correspondence with Juri Lotman --
Part V. Final resting place --
Burial site marker and co-ordinates --
Part VI. Photographs --
Twenty-seven pictures --
Notes on contributors --
Index