Abstract
Victoria Lady Welby dealt with all the major philosophical questions relevant to herself and to her environment. She also came to write about subjectivity and difference among I, Me, and Self as well as about transcendence. In that sense she is extremely “modern,” perhaps even au courant. Susan Petrilli's great work has rescued from oblivion an important scholar of the past, a pioneer in the history of the semiotic movement, whose thought provokes the most diverse interpretations. She ranks among the great classics of semiotics – in the side of Peirce and Royce – although her significs project never became part of mainstream philosophy nor even within the scope of semiotics. She herself was a true “significian” throughout her life, and much remains to be learned about her writings. Finally we have the access to the sources of Welby's activities, thanks to Petrilli's years of devoted research.
About the author
Eero Tarasti (b. 1948) is a professor at the University of Helsinki 〈eero.tarasti@helsinki.fi〉. His research interests include music and semiotics. His publications include A theory of musical semiotics (1994); Signs of music (2003); “Existential semiotics and cultural psychology” (2012); and Semiotics of classical music: How Mozart, Brahms, and Wagner talk to us (2012).
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