New book from the Tartu Semiotics Library series: Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop, Kalevi Kull (eds.) 2013. Beginnings of the semiotics of culture. (Tartu Semiotics Library vol. 13.) Tartu: University of Tartu Press. 133 p. (Pb) A landmark of Tartu semiotics for nearly half of a century now is the semiotics of culture. The semiotic study…

New book by Floyd Merrell (from the University of Tartu Press): merrell, floyd 2013. Meaning Making: It’s what we do; it’s who we are (A transdisciplinary approach). (Tartu Semiotics Library vol. 12.) Tartu: University of Tartu Press. 321 p. (Pb) Meaning Making: It’s what we do; it’s who we are (A transdisciplinary approach) is a…

New Book: Leone, Massimo and Pezzini, Isabella, eds. 2013. Semiotics of Subjectivities [in English and Italian]; contributions by Umberto Eco, Victor Stoichita, Massimo Leone, Eero Tarasti, etc. Rome: Aracne. ISNN: 9788854863293. Publisher’s address: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/catalogo/area/scienze-storiche-filosofiche-pedagogiche-e-psicologiche/9788854863293-detail.html Price: 30,00 Euros Short description: essays on the semiotics of subjectivity, with specific attention to its visual representations. A PDF of presentation: Leone &…

“Peirce and Biosemiotics: A Guess at the Riddle of Life” (Springer) Edited by Vinicius romanini and Eliseo Fernández Short description: This volume discusses the importance of Peirce´s philosophy and theory of signs to the development of Biosemiotics, the science that studies the deep interrelation between meaning and life. Peirce considered semeiotic as a general logic…