A fascinating series of essays seeking to define the new philosophical dimension of semiotics.

Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

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Tarasti's explanations, analyses and comments of sign processes in art and everyday life might seem amazing at first sight. He is not afraid of heavily speculative and heavily metaphysical thinking. . . . [he] wants to show us that there can be more involved in sign processes than pure conventionality, maybe even something that is beyond the grasp of the Semiotician.34 2004