Semiotic entanglement: The concepts of environment, Umwelt, and Lebenswelt in semiotic perspective
2013; De Gruyter; Volume: 2014; Issue: 199 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/sem-2013-0085
ISSN1613-3692
Autores Tópico(s)Literature and Cultural Memory
ResumoScience in the modern sense has its origins in early modernity, while the concept of Lebenswelt comes to us from the late modern development of Husserlian phenomenology. Umwelt, by contrast, comes principally from the work of Jakob von Uexküll. Semiotics, by contrast both with science and with phenomenology, is a postmodern development – indeed, as far as philosophy is concerned, semiotics is the very heart of the postmodern turn of intellectual culture. My thesis is that the concept of ``environment'' most properly pertains to the understanding of science, ``Umwelt'' best suits phenomenology, while ``Lebenswelt'' requires a semiotic interpretation to achieve its richest potential.
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