Signs of Meaning in the Universe

Signs of Meaning in the Universe
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 0253112672
ISBN-13 : 9780253112675
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Signs of Meaning in the Universe by : Jesper Hoffmeyer

Download or read book Signs of Meaning in the Universe written by Jesper Hoffmeyer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Avisen On 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.


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