from Vikram Jain Books

Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2002. Tout cela peut bien vous paraître un inintelligible galimatias [...]. Mais telle est justement la sagesse du Tarot qu\'il ne nous éclaire jamais sur notre avenir en termes clairs. Imaginez-vous les désordres qu\'engendrerait une prévision lucide de notre avenir? Non, tout au plus permet-il de pressentir notre avenir. Le petit discours que je vous ai tenu… Read more

Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2004. 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… Read more

Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2003. The musical sense in both poetry and music is fundamentally temporal. The question is not whether music is a language or whether language is music, but rather how the "musicality" of language signifies. The musical sense of poetry is not only heard but it is also felt. In order to deal with these problems the author,… Read more

Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2003. By focusing on ways in which understanding occurs in real-life situations, this anthology offers new insights into semiotic theory from hermeneutic, existential and phenomenological points of view. The essays, written by Finnish and other well-known semioticians, deal with various topics related to understanding. The writers approach the subject from a variety of disciplines, ranging from philosophy,… Read more

Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2003. Musical semiotics, as a new discipline within musicology and general semiotics, has become in recent years an internationally accepted paradigm. This anthology evidences the enthusiastic reception of musical semiotics, as shared by young scholars in that field. The present essays give a rich global perspective on the new science, ranging from musical performance, absolute music to… Read more

Finland: Bookstore Tiedekirja, 2010. Sis. artikkelit: iAnu Pylkkänen/i, Syrjinnän ongelmalliset rajat. Perhe ja yksityiselämä syrjinnänvastaisen lainsäädännön risteymänä; iOuti Anttila/i, Hunnuttautuneet musliminaiset moniperusteisen syrjinnän symboleina; iTiina Qvist/i, Parisuhdeväkivallan sovittelu Suomessa. Näkökulmia sovitteluperiaatteiden ja -käytäntöjen välisiin kysymyksiin; iTiina Oikarinen/i, Kehitä, käännytä, kriminalisoi. Suomen toimenpiteet prostituutiossa tapahtuvaa ihmiskauppaa vastaan; iElina Ikävalko/i, Taistelu tiedosta. Tasa-arvolain uudistus vuosituhannen vaihteessa; iMiia Halme-Tuomisaari/i, Ihmisoikeusasiantuntijuus ja “toinen” sukupuoli;… Read more