Semiotics Continues to Astonish (eBook)

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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.

Contents 10
Chapter 1. Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role 14
Part I. Essays 32
Chapter 2. Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence 34
Chapter 3. When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be 44
Chapter 4. Ethology and the Sebeokian way from zoosemiotics to cyber(bio)semiotics 54
Chapter 5. Sebeok’s panopticon 98
Chapter 6. The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok 128
Chapter 7. Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century 136
Chapter 8. Traduttore traditore? 174
Chapter 9. Astonishing life 204
Chapter 10. Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts 220
Chapter 11. The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology 236
Chapter 12. Tom’s often neglected other theoretical source 264
Chapter 13. We got to know his method 294
Chapter 14. About a master of signs starting from The Sign & Its Masters
Chapter 15. A tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok 320
Chapter 16. Thomas A. Sebeok, hybrid joke-teller 344
Chapter 17. Thomas A. Sebeok, a portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician 356
Chapter 18. Sebok Tamás – Identity and integrity 368
Chapter 19. Birth of a notion 378
Chapter 20. Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics 384
Part II. Vignettes and stories 432
Chapter 21. Ubiquity 434
Chapter 22. Un Sacco di Cane 438
Chapter 23. Tom Sebeok, Hoosier 440
Chapter 24. Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time 444
Chapter 25. Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok 448
Chapter 26. Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok – This is a way of thinking 458
Chapter 27. Summing up: In lieu of an introduction 464
Part III. Letters 474
Chapter 28. Anderson letter of 13 May 2002 472
Chapter 29. Eco letter of 11 January 2002 478
Chapter 30. Hamp letter of 2 January 2002 480
Chapter 31. Remak letter of 24 December 2001 482
Chapter 32. Watt letter of 5 January 2002 484
Part IV. The Tartu connection 486
Chapter 33. The Tartu connection: Sebeok’s correspondence with Juri Lotman 488
Part V. Final resting place 498
Part VI. Photographs 502
Notes on contributors 518
Index 528

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"As an overview of the current status of semiotic understanding, and as a
personal introduction to Thomas A. Sebeok for those unable to meet him prior to his death in 2001, the volume is indispensable. "The dynamic of semiotics is immense in scope," writes Sebeok "seemingly all-encompassing" (1986: x). Since, as Deely brings to our attention (134), even experienced objects presuppose signs, to neglect semiotics is no mere rejection of culture-bound speculation. Thanks in large part to Sebeok's contributions, human understanding now has a viable (and congruent) way to bridge the chasm between nature and culture."
Jamin Pelkey in: Linguist List 23.733