The Companion to Juri Lotman - A Semiotic Theory of Culture

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Peeter Torop (University of Tartu, Estonia)
1. Lotman’s Life and Work, Tatyana Kuzovkina (Tallin University, Estonia)
Part I. Lotman in Context
2. Lotman and Saussure, Ekaterina Velmezova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
3. Lotman and Russian Formalism, Mihhail Trunin (Tallinn University, Estonia)
4. Lotman and Jakobson, Igor Pilshchikov (Tallinn University, Estonia; UCLA, USA) and Elin Sütiste (University of Tartu, Estonia)
5. Lotman and Bakhtin, Caryl Emerson (Princeton University, USA)
6. Lotman and the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, Merit Rickberg (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Silvi Salupere (University of Tartu, Estonia)
7. Lotman in Transnational Context, Igor Pilshchikov (Tallinn University, Estonia; UCLA, USA)
Part II. Lotman in Concepts
8. Language, Suren Zolyan (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia)
9. Text, Aleksei Semenenko (Umea University, Sweden)
10. Culture, Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University and University of Tartu, Estonia)
11. Communication, Winfried Nöth (Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil)
12. Modelling, Katre Pärn (University of Tartu, Estonia)
13. Narration, Wolf Schmid (University of Hamburg, Germany)
14. Space, Anti Randviir (University of Tartu, Estonia)
15. Symbol, Ilya Kalinin (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia)
16. Image, Nikolay Poselyagin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
17. Memory, Renate Lachmann (University of Constance, Germany)
18. History, Taras Boyko (University of Tartu, Estonia)
19. Biography, Jan Levchenko (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia)
20. Power, Pietro Restaneo (National Research Council, Italy)
21. Explosion, Laura Gherlone (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina)
22. Semiosphere, Peeter Torop (Tartu University, Estonia)
Part III. Lotman in Dialogue
23. Lotman and French Theory, Sergey Zenkin (Russian State Univresity for the Humanities, Russia)
24. Lotman and Deconstructionism, Daniele Monticelli (Tallinn University, Estonia)
25. Lotman and Cultural History, Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia)
26. Lotman and Literary Studies, Katalin Kroó (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
27. Lotman and New Historicism, Andreas Schönle (University of Bristol, UK)
28. Lotman and Cultural Studies, John Hartley (Curtin University, Australia)
29. Lotman and Popular Culture Studies, Eva Kimminich (University of Potsdam, Germany)
30. Lotman and Media Studies, Indrek Ibrus (Tallinn University, Estonia) and Maarja Ojamaa (University of Tartu, Estonia)
31. Lotman and Social Media Studies, Mari-Liis Madisson (University of Tartu, Estonia) and Andreas Ventsel (University of Tartu, Estonia)
32. Lotman and Memory Studies, Nutsa Batiashvili (Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia), James V. Wertsch (Washington University in St Louis, USA) and Tinatin Inauri (Free University of Tblisi, Georgia)
33. Lotman and Political Theory, Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu, Estonia) and Alexandra Yatsyk (University of Tartu, Estonia)
34. Lotman and Life Sciences, Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu, Estonia) and Timo Maran (University of Tartu, Estonia)
35. Lotman and Cognitive Neurosciences, Edna Andrews (Duke University, USA)
Lotman in English: A Bibliography, Remo Gramigna (University of Turin, Italy)
Index

About the author

Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. His primary research fields are cultural history of medieval Europe, theory and history of historiography, and cultural memory studies. He has recently published Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier, Bloomsbury 2019), Juri Lotman – Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (2019), Debating New Approaches to History (ed. with Peter Burke, Bloomsbury 2018), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015), and a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (ed. with Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen, Ashgate 2011). He is also the co-editor of A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli, Bloomsbury 2020).Peeter Torop is Professor of Semiotics of Culture at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is Co-Editor of the Sign Systems Studies journal and the Tartu Semiotics Library.

Summary

Juri Lotman (1922–1993), the Russian-Estonian literary scholar, cultural historian and semiotician, was one of the most original and important cultural theorists of the 20th century, as well as a co-founder of the well-known Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics. This is the first authoritative volume to explore Lotman’s work and discuss his main ideas and intellectual legacy in the context of contemporary scholarship.

Boasting an interdisciplinary cast of academics from across the globe, the book is structured into three main sections – Context, Concepts and Dialogue – which simultaneously provide ease of navigation and intriguing prisms through which to view Lotman’s various scholarly contributions. Saussure, Bakhtin, Language, Memory, Space, Cultural History, New Historicism, Literary Studies and Political Theory are just some of the thinkers, themes and approaches examined in relation to Lotman, while the introduction and Lotman bibliography in English that frame the main essays provide valuable background knowledge and useful information for further research.

The Companion to Juri Lotman shines a light on a hugely significant and all-too often neglected figure in 20th-century intellectual history.

Foreword

A comprehensive interdisciplinary companion to the intellectual legacy of Juri Lotman, the celebrated cultural historian and theorist.

Additional text

Inexhaustible in his curiosity and creative intelligence, Juri Lotman is one of the great modern thinkers about culture. His generous mind seemed to dart from place to place, casting a brilliant light wherever it turned. At moments of bafflement, I have repeatedly found in him a source at once of clarification and inspiration. This volume stands as powerful testimony to his generative power across a wide range of inquiries.

Product details

• Authors: Marek Tamm, Peeter Torop
• Assisted by: Marek Tamm (Editor), Peeter Torop (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781350181618
• ISBN: 978-1-350-18161-8
• No. of pages: 552
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History of Ideas, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Social & cultural history, Semiotics / semiology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Language and Linguistics