Book Information My selection of papers, which had been published for the past 20 years, has been finally published by an independent publisher in England. As a life-long independent scholar I am still happy to see my writings organized along the independent line (an interdisciplinary/cross-cultural-theoretical line) could be edited and published outside the established publishing…

New Book: Embodiment, Relation, Community: A Continental Philosophy of Communication (Penn State University Press, 2019) by Garnet C. Butchart, Duquesne University http://www.psupress.org/emailassets/NewTitleButchartEmailCatsCust.html?utm_source=CatsCust&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewTitleButchart  From the publisher: In this volume, Garnet C. Butchart shows how human communication can be understood as embodied relations and not merely as a mechanical process of transmission. Expanding on contemporary philosophies of speech and…

A Literary Semiotics Approach to the Semantic Universe of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Author(s): Murat Kalelioğlu Book Description Semiotics can be considered as a well-organized signification journey taken among the pages of the work of art. It requires background knowledge related to the field and its analysis tools, as well as careful reading practices in…

Call for book chapters Proposed Edited Volume: Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective Download Call for Book PDF: cfp_food_medicine_biosemiotics The ubiquity of food and medicines in their varied forms in everyday life may explain why they became unmissable issues in the history of sign studies. Indeed, a semiotic awareness was key in the first attempts…

Metamorphoses of the Absolute Editor(s): Daina Teters, Otto Neumaier Series: MetaMind Book Description This collection of essays is devoted to the diversity of the conceptual and terminological definitions of the notion of the “absolute”. Absolute comprises both the concepts of the Western world related to God and the verbal constructions flowing from these ideas in…