Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an 'epistemological break' with 'modern' modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the 'culture/nature' division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Biosemiotics, 15
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Paul Cobley
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	139
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-9402408577
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	9402408576
Barcode:	9789402408577

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