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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Pages: 263-275

ISBN (Hardback): 9789811014932

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Seif, "Erotica and semiotica", in: Edusemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Erotica and semiotica

what's love got to do with edusemiotics?

Seif

pp. 263-275

in: Inna Semetsky (ed), Edusemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

There is a tendency to reduce erotica to sexual desire or lust according to the conventional perception of Eros. By liberating Eros from mere eroticism, the relation between erotica and semiotica is revealed. As the generator-of-desire, Eros seduces us to engage in a learning process awakening a sense of wholeness. This process has remarkable features of reciprocity and infinity, where love manifests in the desire to create a microcosmic whole and to seek its expansion into an evolving macrocosmic whole. Drawing on Bataille's eroticism, Baudrillard's seduction, Gebser's aperspectival consciousness, and Peirce's evolutionary love, a case for the role of love in edusemiotics as an integrative conceptual framework is proposed. The chapter revisits the relation between erotica, beauty, imagination, design, and intentionality. Teaching and learning the love of wholeness is the raison d'être of edusemiotics.

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

Pages: 263-275

ISBN (Hardback): 9789811014932

Full citation:

Seif, "Erotica and semiotica", in: Edusemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2017