TY - JOUR AU - Kull, Kalevi PY - 2004/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Uexküll and the post-modern evolutionism JF - Sign Systems Studies JA - SSS VL - 32 IS - 1/2 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.04 UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2004.32.1-2.04 SP - 99-114 AB - <p>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.</p> ER -