Transcending Signs: Essays in Existential Semiotics

Preface to the anthology Transcending Signs
Contents
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Finnish Baroque of existential semiotics: Eero Tarasti’s musical synthesis of the voluptuous dance of signs
Above and beneath of existential semiotics?
Exact sciences and the semiotics of existence
Voice as transcendence and otherness
The Transcendental and the Transcendent
The metaphysical system of existential semiotics
Being, resistance and post-truth
From semiotic pragmatism to existential semiotics
Structural, yet existential
Prolegomena on the semiotics of silence (from Jankélévitch to Tarasti)
Myth, music and postmodernity
XX century philosophical paradigms of Japan and the West: A view from Greimassian perspective
Thought and consciousness in language as prerequisites for the existential-identity perception of the human self
Umwelt, Lebenswelt, Dasein & monde vécu – (de)constructing the semiotic cosmology of human existentiality
Aesthetics and human praxis. Notes on the existential semiotics of Eero Tarasti
Eero Tarasti, existential semiotics, music, and mind. On the existential and cognitive notions of situation
Cosmologies of life after Peirce, Heidegger and Darwin
Existential semiotics, semiosis and emotions
The Plane of Dasein. Existential Semiotics and the problem of the medium
Existential universals. Biosemiosis and existential semiosis
Memories of the body and pre-signity in music: Points of contact between Existential Semiotics and Globality of Languages
The existential question between musical and linguistic signification
Growth and entropy in semiosis: Signs coming full circle
Creativity in existential semiotics and psychoanalysis
Ethnomethodological, symbolic interactionist, semiotic and existential micro-foundations of research on institutions
“Disturbing quiet people” – on the hyper-bureaucratization and corporatization of universities
The modes of being inside (or outside) the value fragment: The application of Tarasti’s theory of subject, transcendence and modalities of self to the consumer research
Existential semiotics and sociology of music
Destruction of cultural heritages: The case of Jerusalem in the Light of Jeremiah’s prophecies
From identity to transcendence: A semiotic approach to the survival of the Carolingian cycle in the Brazilian cultural heritage
Saudade: A semiotic study of the cultural episteme of Brazilian existence
Semiolinguistic look on mythology, cultural history and meanings of places in Azerbaijan
Ludo Ergo Sum: Play, existentialism and the ludification of culture
Uncertain signifiers: ‘An Affective Phantasy’ in Jacopo Pontormo’s Joseph in Egypt
Existential being of an artist
An essay on the Persian calligraphy in the light of the theory of existential semiotics by Eero Tarasti
Transcending violence: Artistic interpretations of the myths of Kullervo from the Kalevala to Tero Saarinen
Existential soundtracks: Analysing semiotic meanings in minimalist and post-minimal music
Existential choices of existential signs. Love stories, structuralism, and existential semiotics
Exploration on the construction of existential semiotic theory of film criticism
The transcendent arithmetic of Jesus: An exercise in semiotic reading
Descriptions of death in the Book of Job
Memory in Eero Tarasti’s novel Europe/ Perhaps
Varieties of masculine subjectivity in the Finnish modern literature according to Eero Tarasti’s Zemic-model
H.P. Lovecraft’s subjectivity: an existential semiotic perspective
Structure and meaning in music. A dialogue with Greimas
Existential semiotics and musical hermeneutics: On musical sense advention
Lohengrin by Wagner. Existential narrative-analysis of the Prelude to act I
The emergence of individual subjects in Western music
Existential semiotics and correla(c)tivity of (non-conventional) music (Personal retrospection)
When a few Me-Tones meet: Beethoven à la russe
In the quest of compositional matrices for music themes concerning landscape: Exploring senses as a means for creative processes. Villa-Lobos and his existential signs
Musical arrangement and literary translation as signs: Preserving and renewing cultural heritages
Gustav Mahler’s Wunderhorn orchestral songs: A topical analysis and a semiotic square
Beyond the signs: Art and an artist’s life in Hector Berlioz’s Opus 14
The singing body in a zemic approach: The case of Miguel Garrido
Notes on contributors
Person index
Subject index