Chapter 11: The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Chapter 1: Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role 1
4. Part I. Essays
5. Chapter 2: Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence 21
6. Chapter 3: When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be 31
7. Chapter 4: Ethology and the Sebeokian way from zoosemiotics to cyber(bio)semiotics 41
8. Chapter 5: Sebeok’s panopticon 85
9. Chapter 6: The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok 115
10. Chapter 7: Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century 123
11. Chapter 8: Traduttore traditore? 161
12. Chapter 9: Astonishing life 191
13. Chapter 10: Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts 207
14. Chapter 11: The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology 223
15. Chapter 12: Tom’s often neglected other theoretical source 251
16. Chapter 13: We got to know his method 281
17. Chapter 14: About a master of signs starting from The Sign & Its Masters 293
18. Chapter 15: A Tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok 307
19. Chapter 16: Thomas A. Sebeok, Hybrid Joke-teller 331
20. Chapter 17: Thomas A. Sebeok, A portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician 343
21. Chapter 18: Sebők Tamás – Identity and integrity 355
22. Chapter 19: Birth of a notion 365
23. Chapter 20: Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics 371
24. Part II. Vignettes and stories
25. Chapter 21: Ubiquity 421
26. Chapter 22: Un Sacco di Cane 425
27. Chapter 23: Tom Sebeok, Hoosier 427
28. Chapter 24: Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time 431
29. Chapter 25: Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok 435
30. Chapter 26: Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok – This is a way of thinking 445
31. Chapter 27: Summing up: In lieu of an introduction 451
32. Part III. Letters
33. Chapter 28: Anderson letter of 13 May 2002 463
34. Chapter 29: Eco letter of 11 January 2002 465
35. Chapter 30: Hamp letter of 2 January 2002 467
36. Chapter 31: Remak letter of 24 December 2001 469
37. Chapter 32: Watt letter of 5 January 2002 471
38. Part IV. The Tartu connection
39. Chapter 33: The Tartu connection: Thomas Sebeok’s correspondence with Juri Lotman 475
40. Part V. Final resting place
41. Burial site marker and co-ordinates 487
42. Part VI. Photographs
43. Twenty-seven pictures 491
44. Notes on contributors 504
45. Index 515