Human Lifeworlds

Göran Sonesson

ISBN 10: 3631662858 / ISBN 13: 9783631662854

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2016, 2016

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Neuware -This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which they endow their Lifeworld with meaning. The properties that have made human beings special among animals living in the terrestrial biosphere do not derive entirely from their biological-genetic evolution, but also stem from their interaction with the environment, in its culturally interpreted form, the Lifeworld. This, in turn, becomes possible thanks to the human ability to learn from other thinking beings, and to transfer experiences, knowledge, meaning, and perspectives to new generations. 402 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Lifeworlds
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Aug 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631662858
• ISBN 13: 9783631662854
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 27D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 630 grams

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Synopsis

This book, which presents a cognitive-semiotic theory of cultural evolution, including that taking place in historical time, analyses various cognitive-semiotic artefacts and abilities. It claims that what makes human beings human is fundamentally the semiotic and cultural skills by means of which they endow their Lifeworld with meaning. The properties that have made human beings special among animals living in the terrestrial biosphere do not derive entirely from their biological-genetic evolution, but also stem from their interaction with the environment, in its culturally interpreted form, the Lifeworld. This, in turn, becomes possible thanks to the human ability to learn from other thinking beings, and to transfer experiences, knowledge, meaning, and perspectives to new generations.

About the Author

David Dunér, Professor of History of Ideas, Lund University, has been concerned with the history of sciences in the 17th–18th century, and more recently with cognitive history.
Göran Sonesson, Professor of Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University, has written extensively on pictorial and cultural semiotics, and more recently on semiotic evolution and development.