Synopses & Reviews
From relativism to relativity, from quantum theory to queer theory, Postmodern Encounters is a series of small books, each discussing a key idea at the cutting edge of contemporary thought.
Signs are often thought of as a property of human society, a complex web of interactions far beyond the simple behaviorism of the animal world. For Thomas Sebeok, nothing could be further from the truth. Signs are universal, and semiology as important to biology as it is to sociology. Through Sebeok's work it may come to be recognized that sign activity is the very definition of life in the universe.