by Eero Tarasti (Author)

Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.

Author Biography

Eero Tarasti holds the Chair of Musicology at the University of Helsinki. One of the world's leading semioticians, he is founder and President of the Semiotic Society of Finland, Director of the International Semiotics Institute at Imatra, and author of numerous articles and books, including A Theory of Musical Semiotics (Indiana University Press).