Overview
- The first book-length study of the implications for culture of biosemiotics
- Provides digestible summaries of the work of key thinkers in biosemiotics, including Deacon, Hoffmeyer, Kull and Sebeok
- Includes chapters on key topics in culture, including ethics, subjectivity, human exceptionalism, the humanities, repression and semiotics
Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 15)
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About this book
This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an ‘epistemological break’ with ‘modern’ modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the ‘culture/nature’ division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics
Authors: Paul Cobley
Series Title: Biosemiotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0858-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Crown 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0857-7Published: 19 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1419-6Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-0858-4Published: 11 August 2016
Series ISSN: 1875-4651
Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 139
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semiotics