Yuri Lotman

Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Universe of the Mind addresses three main areas: meaning and text, culture, and history. The result is a full-scale attempt to demonstrate the workings of the semiotic space or intellectual world. Part One is concerned with the ways that texts generate meaning. Part Two addresses Lotman's central idea of the semiosphere -- the domain in which all semiotic systems can function -- presented through an analogy with the global biosphere. Part Three focuses on semiotics from the point of view of history.

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Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is the founder of the Moscow-Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics.

Produktdetails

• Second World
• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780253214058
• ISBN-10: 025321405X
• Artikelnr.: 21884936

Autorenporträt

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is the founder of the Moscow-Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Unberto Eco
Preface
Notes to Preface
Part One: The Text as a Meaning-Generating Mechanism
1. Three Functions of the Text
2. Autocommunication: 'I' and 'Other' as Addressees
3. Rhetoric as a Mechanism for Meaning-Generation
4. Iconic Rhetoric
5. The Text as Process of Movement: Author to Audience, Author to Text
6. The Symbol as Plot-Gene
7. The Symbol in the Cultural System
Notes to Part One
Part Two: The Semiosphere
8. Semiotic Space
9. The Notion of Boundary
10. Dialogue Mechanisms
11. The Semiosphere and the Problem of Plot
12. Symbolic Spaces
1. Geographical Space in Russian Medieval Texts
2. The Journey of Ulysses in Dante's Divine Comedy
3. The 'Home' in Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
4. The Symbolism of St. Petersburg
13. Some Conclusions
Notes to Part Two
Part Three: Cultural Memory, History, and Semiotics
14. The Problem of the Historical Fact
15. Historical Laws and the Structure of the Text
16. An Alternative: Culture Without Literacy or Culture Before Culture?
17. The Role of Typological Symbols in the History of Culture
18. Can There Be a Science of History and What Are Its Functions in the
Cultural System?
19. Conclusion
Notes to Part Three
Index