Tarasti, Eero2019-09-252019-09-252009-01-16200715841057http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/172288One need not know much history of semiotics in order to recognize the background of my title. It is of course an allusion to Umberto Eco’s classic Struttura assente from 1968, which turned out to be a major touchstone in the history of European semiotics. At that time, everything about semiotics had become “structural” (Lévi-Strauss had already published his Anthropologie structurale in 1962). But why, for Eco, was structure “absent”?engWith permission of the license/copyright holderculturevalue ethicsPhilosophyMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsArticle