Frontmatter -- Preface to Sein und Schein -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Existential semiotics today: Sein (Being) and Schein (Appearing) -- Chapter 2. On the appearance or the present structure and existential digressions of the subject -- Chapter 3. Representation in Semiotics -- Chapter 4. The concept of genre: In general and in music -- Chapter 5. The world and its interpretation -- Chapter 6. Signs around Us - Umwelt, Semiosphere and Signscape -- Chapter 7. Semio-crises in the era of globalisation: Towards a new theory of collective and individual subjectivity -- Chapter 8. Ideologies manifesting axiologies -- Chapter 9. Semiotics of resistance: Being, memory, history, and the counter-current of signs -- Chapter 10. Culture and transcendence -- Chapter 11. A proposal for a semiotic theory of performing arts -- Chapter 12. On culinemes, gastrophemes, and other signs of cooking -- Chapter 13.A. Metaphors of nature and organicism -- Chapter 13.B. Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music -- Chapter 14. Finland in the eyes of a semiotician -- Chapter 15. From absolute spirit to the community of interpretation: Josiah Royce (1855-1916), the American classic between Hegel and Peirce -- Chapter 16. Victoria Lady Welby - A pioneer of semiotic thought rediscovered by Susan Petrilli -- Chapter 17. Vladimir Solovyov -- Chapter 18. Russian formalism in the global semiotics - Precursor of the European branch -- Chapter 19. Wilhelm Sesemann in the context of semiotics -- Chapter 20. Roland Barthes or the birth of semiotics from the spirit of music -- Chapter 21. The right of unfunctionality - Explorations in Ponzio's philosophical semiotics -- Chapter 22. São Paulo, Helsinki, New Delhi - The life of José Luiz Martinez -- Chapter 23. Can Semiotics be organized? Observations over a 40-year period -- Literature -- Index