Culture and Explosion

Juri Lotman

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

Culture and Explosion

Juri Lotman

Translated by: Wilma Clark
Edited by: Marina Grishakova

Volume 1 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110218473

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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.

Author information

Juri Lotman (†); Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu, Estonia; Wilma Clark, London Knowledge Lab, UK.

Reviews

"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

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Translator’s preface Wilma Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Edna Andrews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
Foreword. Lotmanian explosion Peeter Torop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxvii
Chapter 1. Statement of the problem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. A monolingual system Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	4
Chapter 3. Gradual progress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Chapter 4. Continuity and discontinuity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chapter 5. Semantic intersection as the explosion of meanings. Inspiration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 6. Thinking reed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 7. The world of proper names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Chapter 8. The fool and the madman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 9. The text within the text (inset chapter) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 10. Inverse image Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Chapter 11. The logic of explosion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 12. The moment of unpredictability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 13. Internal structures and external influences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 14. Two forms of dynamic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 15. The dream – a semiotic window Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Chapter 16. “I” and “I” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 17. The phenomenon of art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Chapter 18. The end! How sonorous is this word! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Chapter 19. Perspectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Chapter 20. In place of conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Afterword. Around Culture and Explosion: J. Lotman and the Tartu-Moscow School in the 1980–90s Marina Grishakova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Students and Researchers of Semiotics, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Russian/Slavonic/Eastern European Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 39
- Main content: 195
Keywords: Semiotics; Culture Studies

eBook

Published: September 4, 2009
ISBN: 9783110218473

Hardcover

Published: September 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783110218459

Paperback

Published: October 27, 2010
ISBN: 9783110218466