Mimesis and Metaphor: The biosemiotic generation of meaning in Cassirer and Uexküll

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  • Andreas Weber Friedhofsweg 11a, D-21614 Buxtehude, Hamburg

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https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.13

Abstract

In this paper I pursue the influences of Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics on the anthropology of Ernst Cassirer. I propose that Cassirer in his Philosophy of the Symbolic Forms has written a cultural semiotics which in certain core ideas is grounded on biosemiotic presuppositions, some explicit (as the “emotive basic ground” of experience), some more implicit. I try to trace the connecting lines to a biosemiotic approach with the goal of formulating a comprehensive semiotic anthropology which understands man as embodied being and culture as a phenomenon of general semioses.

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Published

2004-12-31

How to Cite

Weber, A. (2004). Mimesis and Metaphor: The biosemiotic generation of meaning in Cassirer and Uexküll. Sign Systems Studies, 32(1/2), 297–307. https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.13

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