Culture and Explosion

Culture and Explosion, now appearing in English for the very first time, is the final book written by the legendary semiotician Juri Lotman. Originally published in Russian in 1992, a year before Lotman's death, the volume puts forth a fundamental theory: the semiotics of culture. Proceeding from a model of communication, Lotman extends the work of the renowned Tartu-Moscow school that he founded, showing not only how culture can be observed and described, but also how it can be governed and guided. In fact, as Lotman demonstrates with copious examples, the modelling system of culture has an immeasurably strong influence on the way that humans experience "reality". As usual, Lotman's erudition is brought to bear on the theory of culture, and the book comprises a host of well-chosen illustrations from history, literature, art and right across the humanities.
The book is of interest to students and researchers in semiotics, cultural/literary studies and Russian studies, as well as anyone with an interest in understanding contemporary intellectual life.

About the author

Jurij M. Lotman (1922-1993), Mitbegründer der Moskauer-Tartuer Schule, war Literaturwissenschaftler und Kultursemiotiker.

Report

"This book provokes so much tangible information and intangible imagination that it deserves to be widely read and long pondered."
Dinda L. Gorlée in: American Book Review 5-6/2010

Product details

• Authors: Juri Lotman, Jurij M. Lotman
• Assisted by: Marin Grishakova (Editor), Marina Grishakova (Editor), Wilma Clark (Translation)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2009
• EAN: 9783110218459
• ISBN: 978-3-11-021845-9
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 20 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 466 g
• Series: Semiotics and Popular Culture; Semiotics and Popular Culture; Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics