Lotman's Cultural Semiotics and the Political

This book aims to inscribe the prominent Soviet semiologist Yuri Lotman into the analysis of political forms and components of power as seen from the context of various Russian-European encounters.

List of contents

Acknowledgements / Introduction / 1. Boundaries and the Political: A Cultural Semiotic Contribution to the Debate / 2. Beyond the Semiosphere: Signifying Corporeality and Displacements / 3. Excavating the Soviet: from Explosion to Erasure / 4. Playing Games with Europe: Between Accomodation and Subversion / Conclusion / Bibliography / Notes on transliteration and empirical data / Index

About the author

Andrey Makarychev is guest Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Science, the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Product details

• Authors: Andrey Makarychev, Makarychev Andrey, Alexandra Yatsyk, Yatsyk Alexandra
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2017
• EAN: 9781783488322
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-832-2
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 238 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Semiotics / semiology, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism