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Uexküll and the post-modern evolutionism
Uexküll and the post-modern evolutionism

Author(s): Kalevi Kull
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: Jakob von Uexküll’s evolutionary views are described and analysed in the context of changes in semiotic and biological thinking at the end of Modern age. As different from the late Modernist biology, a general feature of Post-Modern interpretation of living systems is that an evolutionary explanation has rather secondary importance, it is not obligatory for an understanding of adaptation. Adaptation as correspondence to environment is a communicative, hence a semiotic phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 32/2004
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 99-114
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English
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