Uexküll and the post-modern evolutionism

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  • Kalevi Kull Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tiigi 78, 50410 Tartu

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https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.04

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.

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Published

2004-12-31

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Kull, K. (2004). Uexküll and the post-modern evolutionism. Sign Systems Studies, 32(1/2), 99–114. https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.04

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