From Nature to Psyche

The Imatra Summer Congresses have always mirrored the most recent developments in the study of signs. This anthology consists mostly of papers delivered at the congresses of 2001 and 2002. We are facing a new wawe of semiotics, which is no longer focusing on things "post", but on the future - a wawe that surges forward to meet the new intellectual challenges posed by humankind's situation in the early 2000s. What neosemiotics will become is as yet hard to say, but to recall Saussure's famous prediction, it has the right to exist.