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

The cheerful colors of the book’s cover already say it: Lotman is of and for today. His pioneering semiotics of culture inflected the linguistic bias into a wide array of thinking about “culture” - not as distinct cultures-in-tension but as the environment that makes life livable. The many chapter titles like “Lotman and...” are telling: of the width of relevance of his ideas, of their interdisciplinarity, and of the spirit of collaboration. It gives the genre name “Companion” a new, vital and actual meaning. This book is a great gift to current cultural scholarship.