Human Lifeworlds: The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural Evolution - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631662858 ISBN 13: 9783631662854

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which they endow their Lifeworld with meaning. The properties that have made human beings special among animals living in the terrestrial biosphere do not derive entirely from their biological-genetic evolution, but also stem from their interaction with the environment, in its culturally interpreted form, the Lifeworld. This, in turn, becomes possible thanks to the human ability to learn from other thinking beings, and to transfer experiences, knowledge, meaning, and perspectives to new generations.

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David Dunér, Professor of History of Ideas, Lund University, has been concerned with the history of sciences in the 17th–18th century, and more recently with cognitive history. Göran Sonesson, Professor of Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University, has written extensively on pictorial and cultural semiotics, and more recently on semiotic evolution and development.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3631662858
• ISBN 13: 9783631662854
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402
• Herausgeber: Dunér David, Sonesson Göran
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Deutschland