DOI: https://doi.org/10.36719/2706-6185/55/75-83
Belkecir Mestefa
Saida University, Dr. Moulay Taher (Algeria)
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3670-8569
moos743@gmail.com
Azizi Khaldia Amina
University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed (Algeria)
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0643-8456
azizi.khaldiaamina@univ-oran2.dz
Ecosemiotics: Semiotic Roots of Deep Ecology in the
Thought of Arne Næss
Abstract
This article seeks to uncover the organic unity and methodological continuity in the intellectual trajectory of the Norwegian philosopher Arne Næss (1912–2009), whose work is often portrayed as a sequence of leaps across discrete domains: from logical positivism to empirical semiotics and, subsequently, to deep ecology. The article challenges this fragmented reading and demonstrates how empirical semiotics, with central concepts such as “determination” and its contextual method of meaning analysis, provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for the later establishment of deep ecology.
Keywords: empirical semiotics, deep ecology, ecosemiotics, determination, context