Signs of Meaning in the Universe (Advances in Semiotics)

ISBN: 0253332338

Author: Hoffmeyer, Jesper

Condition: New

From reviews for the bestselling Danish edition:" . . . dashing and idiomatic language that is a pleasure to read." -Berlingske Tidende" . . . an appetizer and eye opener . . . Hoffmeyer is a modernistic pioneer in the wide open spaces of the natural sciences . . . " -Politiken" . . . extremely well written and interesting manifesto for a bioanthropology . . . " -Inf."It should be read by anyone who likes to be wiser and at the same time to be challenged in his habitual conception of the relations between culture and nature." -Weekend AvisenOn this tour of the universe of signs, Jesper Hoffmeyer travels back to the Big Bang, visits the tiniest places deep within cells, and ends his journey with us-complex organisms capable of speech and reason. What propels this journey is Hoffmeyer's attempt to discover how nature could come to mean something to someone-by telling the story of how cells, tissue, organs, plants, animals, even entire ecosystems communicate by signs and signals.