Feeling the signs: The origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas
Sign Systems Studies December 21, 2021 Andreas Weber
This paper describes the semiotic approach to organism in two proto-biosemiotic thinkers, Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas. Both authors develop ideas that have become central terms of biosemiotics: the organism as subject, the realisation of the living as a closed circular self, the value concept, and, in the case of Langer, the concept of symbol. Langer tries to develop a theory of cultural...