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Mon Jul 23 2001

TOC: Semiotica Volume 134-1/4

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1. Gillian Caglayan, Semiotica Volume 134-1/4 (2001) Special Issue: Jakob von Uexk�ll

Semiotica
Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies
Revue de l'Association Internationale de S�miotique

Editor-in-Chief: Thomas A. Sebeok
ISSN 0037-1998

Volume 134 - 1/4 (2001)


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Contents/Sommaire

Special Issue:
Jakob von Uexk�ll: A paradigm for biology and semiotics
Guest Editor: Kalevi Kull


KALEVI KULL
Jakob von Uexk�ll: An introduction

THOMAS A. SEBEOK
Biosemiotics: Its roots, proliferation, and prospects

FREDERIK STJERNFELT
A natural symphony? To what extent is Uexk�ll's Bedeutungslehre actual
for the semiotics of our time?

THURE VON UEXK�LL
Units of survival


Umwelt

JAKOB VON UEXK�LL
An introduction to Umwelt

JAKOB VON UEXK�LL
The new concept of Umwelt: A link between science and the humanities

JOHN DEELY
Umwelt

PAUL BAINS
Umwelten

SERGEY V. CHEBANOV
Umwelt as life world of living being

MYRDENE ANDERSON
Life and living in wonderworld

UDO L. FIGGE
Jakob von Uexk�ll: Merkmale and Wirkmale

SOLOMON MARCUS
On the logical and semiotic status of Jakob von Uexk�ll's concept of
Umwelt

ALEXEI SHAROV
Umwelt-theory and pragmatism

FLOYD MERRELL
Distinctly human Umwelt?

J. T. FRASER
The extended Umwelt principle: Uexk�ll and the nature of time


Philosophy

BAREND VAN HEUSDEN
Jakob von Uexk�ll and Ernst Cassirer

SABINE BRAUCKMANN
>From the haptic-optic space to our environment: Jakob von Uexk�ll and
Richard Woltereck

ANDRES LUURE
Lessons from Uexk�ll's antireductionism and reductionism: A pansemiotic
view

ALDONA POBOJEWSKA
New biology - Jakob von Uexk�ll's Umweltlehre


Theoretical biology

HOWARD H. PATTEE
Irreducible and complementary semiotic forms

STANLEY N. SALTHE
Theoretical biology as an anticipatory text: The relevance of Uexk�ll to
current issues in evolutionary systems

JESPER HOFFMEYER
Seeing virtuality in nature

F. EUGENE YATES
Umwelt theory implies heuristics


Ecology

ALEKSEI TUROVSKI
On the parasite's association as a vectorizing factor in biosemiotic
development

MARTIN KRAMPEN
No plant - no breath

BERNARD C. PATTEN
Jakob von Uexk�ll and the theory of environs


Linguistics

JAKOB VON UEXK�LL
Letter to Heinrich Junker

URMAS SUTROP
Umwelt-Word and concept: Two hundred years of semantic change

HELMUT GIPPER
Self-world and world of language: Jakob von Uexk�ll's theory as a basis
for integrational linguistic research

TUOMO J�MS�
Jakob von Uexk�ll's theory of sign and meaning from a philosophical,
semiotic, and linguistic point of view


Arts and literature

MALTE HERWIG
The unwitting muse: Jakob von Uexk�ll's theory of Umwelt and
twentieth-century literature

OLIVER A. I. BOTAR
Notes towards a study of Jakob von Uexk�ll's reception in early
twentieth-century artistic and architectural circles

MARK REYBROUCK
Biological roots of musical epistemology: Functional cycles, Umwelt, and
enactive listening

ILIA UTEKHIN
Spanish echoes of Jakob von Uexk�ll's thought


Technology of mind

KARI Y. H. LAGERSPETZ
Jakob von Uexk�ll and the origins of cybernetics

CLAUS EMMECHE
Does a robot have an Umwelt? Reflections on the qualitative biosemiotics
of Jakob von Uexk�ll

WINFRIED N�TH
Semiosis and the Umwelt of a robot

TOM ZIEMKE and NOEL E. SHARKEY
A stroll through the worlds of robots and animals: Applying Jakob von
Uexk�ll's theory of meaning to adaptive robots and artificial life

ANDREAS ROEPSTORFF
Brains in scanners: An Umwelt of cognitive neuroscience

BORIA SAX and PETER H. KLOPFER
Jakob von Uexk�ll and the anticipation of sociobiology

S�REN BRIER
Cybersemiotics and Umweltlehre

YOSHIMI KAWADE
Subject - Umwelt - society: The triad of living beings


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