Eero Tarasti
Biographic Data
| ID | 987680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eero Tarasti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eero |
| FAMILY NAME | Tarasti |
| SIGNATURE | TARASTI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6960-1395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Musical Metaphors and Epistemes: The Case of the Classical Style in the Austria of the Empress Maria Teresa
Artykuł został poświęcony zagadnieniom teoretycznym, muzyce XVIII wieku oraz bieżącemu życiu muzycznemu, jako elementom kluczowym dla powstawania znaczeń muzycznych na różnych poziomach dzieła muzycznego i jego interpretacji. Autor wychodzi od uwag odnoszących się do obecności metafor w muzyce oraz roli, jaką odgrywa ona w wyrażaniu znaczeń, aby w kolejnej części artykułu odnieść się do epistemologii i podkreślić jej znaczenie w kontekście rozumi…
Krzysztof Penderecki: An Existential Semiotic Study of His Sonoristic Works and Cello and Orchestra Concerto No. 2
This paper presents the first application of semiotic theories by Eero Tarasti—and particularly of the so-called existential semiotics—to the music by the avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Using the zemic analysis of four works: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Anaklasis, Fluorescences and Cello Concerto No. 2, the author shows the connection of music—albeit it be as ‘absolute’ as ever—to a certain fundamental semantics, which is pr…
An Essay on Rhythm
Rhythm is a universal phenomenon : it appears on ontological level in the different theories of temporality ; on the other hand, it is an empirical phenomenon to be studied in diverse concrete cases. Rhythm appears either in the utterance (énoncé) or in the act of uttering (énonciation). If we apply this to music, it means that rhythm can be written down in the score, or manifested in the performance. Rhythm is a corporeal entity, a psychological…
Du Flâneur au traceur: Playful bodies in urban spaces
This paper investigates how play practices affect players’ relationships with the urban environment through the bodily movement and performances that characterize them. Building on a definition of playful behavior derived by semiotics of culture, we investigate urban play from the perspective of motor praxology to outline how movement is central for the experience of the players. We then concentrate on the role of semiotic valorizations in differ…
The semiotics of A. J. Greimas: A European intellectual heritage seen from the inside and the outside
The essay deals with the formation of the Greimassian thought from its earliest origins in his young years at Kaunas University, i.e. his connections with Wilhelm Sesemann, Lev Karsavin and Russian formalism, to the rise of structuralism in Paris. The Paris School approach stems from Sémantique structurale (1967) leading to the ‘third semiotic revolution’, as Greimas called it, by the invention of the modalities. This made his method close to eve…
Metaphors, semiotics and futures studies
Sein und Schein: Explorations in Existential Semiotics
Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification and communication. This book develops its theory further starting from the continental philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Jaspers, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre) on one hand, yet remaining also faithful to the tradition of the European semiotics, particularly the Paris school. From the notions of being, doing and appearing the study applies them to crucial social problems of the con…
Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
Victoria Lady Welby dealt with all the major philosophical questions relevant to herself and to her environment. She also came to write about subjectivity and difference among I, Me, and Self as well as about transcendence. In that sense she is extremely “modern,” perhaps even au courant. Susan Petrilli's great work has rescued from oblivion an important scholar of the past, a pioneer in the history of the semiotic movement, whose thought provoke…
Prelims
Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history - the counter-current of signs
This article focuses on ‘resistance’ and the role that semiotics has to play in it. It posits resistance through the lens of ‘existential semiotics’ (Tarasti, Existential Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 2000), based on Greimas but also including a lineage comprising Bergson, Aron, von Wright, Ricoeur and Elias, and ultimately back to Hegel in mapping the logics of ‘transcendence’. As illustrative cases, the essay analyses the aesthetics of r…
Humanities: State and prospects
Humanities: State and prospects
Ideologies manifesting axiologies
The semiosis of light in music: From synaesthesias to narratives
Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music: A "biosemiotic" introduction to the analysis of Jean Sibelius' symphonic thought
Metaphors of nature and organism play a central role in the epistemes of the Western culture and arts. The entire project of the 'modern' meant a separation of man from the cosmos and its laws. Signs and symbols are thought to be arbitrary and conventional social constructions. However, there are many returns to iconic imitations of nature and biological principles also in such an esoteric art as music. One of the highest aesthetic categories in …
Finno-Ugric semiotics: Cultures and metacultures
Finno-Ugric semiotics: Cultures and metacultures
Vladimir Soloviev: Pre- or anti-semiotician
L'A. decrit la pensee philosophique, theologique et semiotique de Vladimir Soloviev et montre dans quelle mesure son style et ses aspirations representent un heritage pertinent a l'aube du 21 e siecle
Signs and transcendence
L'A. retrace la construction de la semiotique classique, dans son courant europeen et dans son courant americain. Il presente sa propre theorie, qui a abandonne la semiotique structuraliste de Greimas au profit de bases nouvelles qu'il appelle semiotique existentielle, inspiree des philosophes existentialistes comme Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers, Jean Wahl et Sartre. Son modele est base sur le concept de Dasein (existence), qui constitue le mon…
On post-colonial semiotics
On post-colonial semiotics
The implicit musical semiotics of Marcel Proust
Because of his awareness that the surface of every narration is a tissue of signs, Proust is able to present a semiotic analysis of musical enunciation in his description (in La prisonnière) of a performance of the fictional Septet by Vinteuil. He shows music as a fait social total, in which the enunciate is in dialogue with the enunciation; and thus he discusses different ways of listening, different aspects of the composer as man and as musical…
Heitor Villa-Lobos. The Life and Works, 1887-1959
Heitor Villa-Lobos was perhaps the greatest of Brazilian composers. He wrote music for voice, guitar and piano, as well as chamber pieces, concertos, and orchestral and operatic works. This book, a revision of a work first published in Finland, concentrates on his compositions, with many analyzed in depth
Musical Signification: Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music
Myth and Music: A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, Especially That of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky
Pour une narratologie de Chopin
Myth and Music: A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky
Musical Signification: Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music
Myth and Music: A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky
The semiotics of A. J. Greimas: A European intellectual heritage seen from the inside and the outside
The essay deals with the formation of the Greimassian thought from its earliest origins in his young years at Kaunas University, i.e. his connections with Wilhelm Sesemann, Lev Karsavin and Russian formalism, to the rise of structuralism in Paris. The Paris School approach stems from Sémantique structurale (1967) leading to the ‘third semiotic revolution’, as Greimas called it, by the invention of the modalities. This made his method close to eve…
Metaphors, semiotics and futures studies
Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history - the counter-current of signs
This article focuses on ‘resistance’ and the role that semiotics has to play in it. It posits resistance through the lens of ‘existential semiotics’ (Tarasti, Existential Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 2000), based on Greimas but also including a lineage comprising Bergson, Aron, von Wright, Ricoeur and Elias, and ultimately back to Hegel in mapping the logics of ‘transcendence’. As illustrative cases, the essay analyses the aesthetics of r…
Humanities: State and prospects
Humanities: State and prospects
Ideologies manifesting axiologies
On post-colonial semiotics
On post-colonial semiotics
Pour une narratologie de Chopin
Myth and Music: A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music especially that of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky
Myth and Music: A Semiotic Approach to the Aesthetics of Myth in Music, Especially That of Wagner, Sibelius and Stravinsky
Pour une narratologie de Chopin
Musical Signification: Essays in the Semiotic Theory and Analysis of Music
Heitor Villa-Lobos. The Life and Works, 1887-1959
Heitor Villa-Lobos was perhaps the greatest of Brazilian composers. He wrote music for voice, guitar and piano, as well as chamber pieces, concertos, and orchestral and operatic works. This book, a revision of a work first published in Finland, concentrates on his compositions, with many analyzed in depth
The implicit musical semiotics of Marcel Proust
Because of his awareness that the surface of every narration is a tissue of signs, Proust is able to present a semiotic analysis of musical enunciation in his description (in La prisonnière) of a performance of the fictional Septet by Vinteuil. He shows music as a fait social total, in which the enunciate is in dialogue with the enunciation; and thus he discusses different ways of listening, different aspects of the composer as man and as musical…
On post-colonial semiotics
On post-colonial semiotics
Signs and transcendence
L'A. retrace la construction de la semiotique classique, dans son courant europeen et dans son courant americain. Il presente sa propre theorie, qui a abandonne la semiotique structuraliste de Greimas au profit de bases nouvelles qu'il appelle semiotique existentielle, inspiree des philosophes existentialistes comme Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers, Jean Wahl et Sartre. Son modele est base sur le concept de Dasein (existence), qui constitue le mon…
Finno-Ugric semiotics: Cultures and metacultures
Finno-Ugric semiotics: Cultures and metacultures
Vladimir Soloviev: Pre- or anti-semiotician
L'A. decrit la pensee philosophique, theologique et semiotique de Vladimir Soloviev et montre dans quelle mesure son style et ses aspirations representent un heritage pertinent a l'aube du 21 e siecle
The semiosis of light in music: From synaesthesias to narratives
Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music: A "biosemiotic" introduction to the analysis of Jean Sibelius' symphonic thought
Metaphors of nature and organism play a central role in the epistemes of the Western culture and arts. The entire project of the 'modern' meant a separation of man from the cosmos and its laws. Signs and symbols are thought to be arbitrary and conventional social constructions. However, there are many returns to iconic imitations of nature and biological principles also in such an esoteric art as music. One of the highest aesthetic categories in …
Ideologies manifesting axiologies
Humanities: State and prospects
Humanities: State and prospects
Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history - the counter-current of signs
This article focuses on ‘resistance’ and the role that semiotics has to play in it. It posits resistance through the lens of ‘existential semiotics’ (Tarasti, Existential Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 2000), based on Greimas but also including a lineage comprising Bergson, Aron, von Wright, Ricoeur and Elias, and ultimately back to Hegel in mapping the logics of ‘transcendence’. As illustrative cases, the essay analyses the aesthetics of r…
Prelims
Victoria Lady Welby – A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli
Victoria Lady Welby dealt with all the major philosophical questions relevant to herself and to her environment. She also came to write about subjectivity and difference among I, Me, and Self as well as about transcendence. In that sense she is extremely “modern,” perhaps even au courant. Susan Petrilli's great work has rescued from oblivion an important scholar of the past, a pioneer in the history of the semiotic movement, whose thought provoke…
Sein und Schein: Explorations in Existential Semiotics
Existential semiotics is a new paradigm in the studies of signs, signification and communication. This book develops its theory further starting from the continental philosophy (Kant, Hegel, Jaspers, Heidegger, Arendt, Sartre) on one hand, yet remaining also faithful to the tradition of the European semiotics, particularly the Paris school. From the notions of being, doing and appearing the study applies them to crucial social problems of the con…
Metaphors, semiotics and futures studies
The semiotics of A. J. Greimas: A European intellectual heritage seen from the inside and the outside
The essay deals with the formation of the Greimassian thought from its earliest origins in his young years at Kaunas University, i.e. his connections with Wilhelm Sesemann, Lev Karsavin and Russian formalism, to the rise of structuralism in Paris. The Paris School approach stems from Sémantique structurale (1967) leading to the ‘third semiotic revolution’, as Greimas called it, by the invention of the modalities. This made his method close to eve…
An Essay on Rhythm
Rhythm is a universal phenomenon : it appears on ontological level in the different theories of temporality ; on the other hand, it is an empirical phenomenon to be studied in diverse concrete cases. Rhythm appears either in the utterance (énoncé) or in the act of uttering (énonciation). If we apply this to music, it means that rhythm can be written down in the score, or manifested in the performance. Rhythm is a corporeal entity, a psychological…
Du Flâneur au traceur: Playful bodies in urban spaces
This paper investigates how play practices affect players’ relationships with the urban environment through the bodily movement and performances that characterize them. Building on a definition of playful behavior derived by semiotics of culture, we investigate urban play from the perspective of motor praxology to outline how movement is central for the experience of the players. We then concentrate on the role of semiotic valorizations in differ…
Musical Metaphors and Epistemes: The Case of the Classical Style in the Austria of the Empress Maria Teresa
Artykuł został poświęcony zagadnieniom teoretycznym, muzyce XVIII wieku oraz bieżącemu życiu muzycznemu, jako elementom kluczowym dla powstawania znaczeń muzycznych na różnych poziomach dzieła muzycznego i jego interpretacji. Autor wychodzi od uwag odnoszących się do obecności metafor w muzyce oraz roli, jaką odgrywa ona w wyrażaniu znaczeń, aby w kolejnej części artykułu odnieść się do epistemologii i podkreślić jej znaczenie w kontekście rozumi…
Krzysztof Penderecki: An Existential Semiotic Study of His Sonoristic Works and Cello and Orchestra Concerto No. 2
This paper presents the first application of semiotic theories by Eero Tarasti—and particularly of the so-called existential semiotics—to the music by the avant-garde composer Krzysztof Penderecki. Using the zemic analysis of four works: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Anaklasis, Fluorescences and Cello Concerto No. 2, the author shows the connection of music—albeit it be as ‘absolute’ as ever—to a certain fundamental semantics, which is pr…
Philosophy (18 works) · Art (16 works) · Semiotics (14 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (6 works) · Art history (5 works)