Sebeok Book Collection Follows Signs to Tartu
The library of one of the world's leading semioticians of the 20th century has arrived at the University of Tartu.
Thomas Albert Sebeok, who died in 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana, donated the thousands of books and periodicals out of his conviction that Tartu, known for the field, is a place where they would not gather dust, according to ETV.
The sealed boxes are awaiting cataloguing in the basement of the new Philosophicum and contain about 3,300 books and 700 volumes of periodicals.
Peeter Torop, professor of cultural semiotics, told ETV that Sebeok "envied Tartu" as in the US, semioticians were not guaranteed a job after graduation.
Kristopher Rikken