Culture and Explosion
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Culture and Explosion

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Culture and Explosion

About this book

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.

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Translator’s preface
  4. Introduction
  5. Foreword. Lotmanian explosion
  6. Chapter 1. Statement of the problem
  7. Chapter 2. A monolingual system
  8. Chapter 3. Gradual progress
  9. Chapter 4. Continuity and discontinuity
  10. Chapter 5. Semantic intersection as the explosion of meanings. Inspiration
  11. Chapter 6. Thinking reed
  12. Chapter 7. The world of proper names
  13. Chapter 8. The fool and the madman
  14. Chapter 9. The text within the text (inset chapter)
  15. Chapter 10. Inverse image
  16. Chapter 11. The logic of explosion
  17. Chapter 12. The moment of unpredictability
  18. Chapter 13. Internal structures and external influences
  19. Chapter 14. Two forms of dynamic
  20. Chapter 15. The dream – a semiotic window
  21. Chapter 16. “I” and “I”
  22. Chapter 17. The phenomenon of art
  23. Chapter 18. The end! How sonorous is this word!
  24. Chapter 19. Perspectives
  25. Chapter 20. In place of conclusions
  26. Afterword. Around Culture and Explosion: J. Lotman and the Tartu-Moscow School in the 1980–90s
  27. Backmatter

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