Jakob von Uexküll Centre, since 1993
Jakob von Uexküll Centre, since 1993

Summary/Abstract: No doubt, great intellectual heritage serves to be studied, repeatedly. Estonian local traditions in valuation of nature and the scientific fields of theoretical biology and semiotics provide a creative context for the principal study areas of Jakob von Uexküll Centre — biosemiotics, ecosemiotics and the philosophy of nature. Roots, schools and different periods of those discourses in Estonia have been analysed elsewhere (Kull 1999; 2001; Maran, Tüür 2001, Sebeok 1998; Sutrop, Kull 1985), in this brief review we focus only on the activities of the Uexküll Centre of the last dozen years. It should also be mentioned that this has been a decade of a new wave of academic contacts between eastern Europe (including Estonia) and western scientific communities. Extensive dialogues between different fields of science about various aspects of nature–culture relations have also taken place throughout this period (about these relations and dialogues in Estonia, see Lehari, Sarapik 2000; Sarapik et al. 2002).

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