The Play of Musement

by Thomas Albert Sebeok

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Thomas Albert Sebeok or Sebők was a prominent linguist and semiotician, and editor-in-chief of the leading periodical in the field, Semiotica, from its 1969 founding until 2001. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1945. He is counted among the originators of the field of biosemiotics, and was highly influential in the study of non-human signaling and communication systems.

Sebeok was survived by his wife (and frequent co-author), Jean Umiker-Sebeok

Reviews

[Carrie]

A romance about science.

A lot of philosophy is really poetry, is why I read it, but this is prose masquerading as romance about science, but really is just prose about science.

or a romance about the very unromantic figure of C.S. Peirce.

a romance of rationalism.

Really this seems to be lit crit about sherlock holmes.

no idea why I checked this out.

The connection between Sherlock Homes and semiotics.

Dialectics as a navigation between the realms of nature and culture.

There is a long section about windows in sherlock holmes. Curtains, sills, being open or closed, when the shape deviates. The locations of windows. Whether they are ordinary or not. The ambiguous state of the blinds or the shutters.

Most references to light center around the presence of a candle.