英文摘要 |
In his promotion for the international movement of biosemiotics since the 1970s, Thomas A. Sebeok has been consistent to claim Jakob von Uexküll’s "Umwel"t as a piece of ultimate evidence. Nevertheless, Sebeok’s attempt to subsume all the geo-, bio-, politico-, socio- and semio- phenomena by the master trope of "Umwelt" has clashed with Umberto Eco’s closer looks into the pragmatic conditions of addressee in different cultures. In order to restore the heuristic vitality of "Umwelt" for a couple of emerging disciplines during the 1920s and 1950s, the author starts with the establishment of "Institut für Umweltforschung" in Hamburg. Through exposing the interpretations and appropriations of Uexküll’s "Umwelt" by the philosophers and neurolinguists across the border of Germany and France, the author demonstrates Uexküll’s "Umwelt" as a series of codes and signals in biological mechanism, which should be distinguished from the physical world in nature |