Provides an introduction to Giorgio Prodi as one of the most important biosemioticians in recent time Presents a complete unitary theory of life, from viruses to consciousness and religious feeling, based on biosemiotics Discusses various forms of Giorgio Prodi's realisms

Autorentext
Felice Cimatti is an Italian philosopher and semiotician. Giorgio Prodi was an Italian well-known medical scientist, philosopher, and semiotician. Prodi was - together with Thomas Sebeok and Thure von Uexküll - one of co-founders of contemporary biosemiotics.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Life.- Chapter 3. Scientist because Philosopher, Philosopher because Scientist.- Chapter 4. The Line and the Circle.- Chapter 5. The Biological Model: for an anti-Cartesian semiotics.- Chapter 6. Of the Complementarity of the Sign.- Chapter 7. The Origin of Language.- Chapter 8. Attention and Consciousness.- Chapter 9. Breaking the Circle.- Chapter 10. Language and Ethics.- Chapter 11. The Darkness Between Aesthetics and the Sacred.- Chapter 12. Conclusion: Prodi and Italian Thought.