Umweltforschung as a Method of Inquiry: Jakob von Uexküll's 'Semiotics' and Its Fortune Home and Away, 1920-2004
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
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Chien, Jui-Pi
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Abstract
In his international movements of biosemiotics and global semiotics, Thomas A. Sebeok has been consistent to claim Uexkull's Umwelt as the ultimate evidence. Actually, a critical parting of ways of Umwelt happens in the 1960s, in which the word is used to designate "the whole earth" in the discipline of bio-engineering on the one hand, but on the other, it just starts to receive a wider attention in the French philosophical and scientific settings. Sebeok's use of Umwelt as a physical entity of the whole earth has unfortunately removed the heuristic function of Umwelt for a particular type of phenomenon, defined by Goldstein, Lacan and Canguilhem during the 1930s and 1950s. Their efforts of relocating and enriching the Umwelt cycle from the perspectives of their developing methods have been concealed as a missing chapter in the history and aesthetics of receiving Uexkull's research. In addition, in terms of the method of semiotics, Sebeok's panoramic view to subscribe all the geo-, bio-, politico-, socio- and semio- phenomena under the master trope of Umwelt has clashed awfully with Eco's closer looks into the pragmatic conditions of the addressees. Therefore, I will justify the intensive crossings between Umwelt and milieu during the 1930s and 1950s as a variation of Sebeok's project on the European continent, which somehow helps us recollect the methodological vitality of Umwelt and the biological nature of human communication.
Subjects
烏也斯庫爾
生命符號學
方法
Jakob von Uexkü
ll
biosemiotics
method
Type
thesis
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