Companion to Juri Lotman A Semiotic Theory of Culture
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Om bidragsyterne
Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History at Tallinn University, Estonia. He has recently published Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier, 2019), Juri Lotman â Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (ed., 2019) and A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli, 2020).
Peeter Torop is Professor of Semiotics of Culture at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is Co-Editor of the Sign Systems Studies journal and the Tartu Semiotics Library book series.
The cheerful colors of the bookâs 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 âcultureâ - not as distinct cultures-in-tension but as the environment that makes life livable. The many chapter titles like âLotman and...â are telling: of the width of relevance of his ideas, of their interdisciplinarity, and of the spirit of collaboration. It gives the genre name âCompanionâ a new, vital and actual meaning. This book is a great gift to current cultural scholarship.
Mieke Bal, Cultural Theorist and Critic, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Netherlands
Inexhaustible in his curiosity and creative intelligence, Juri Lotman is one of the great modern thinkers about culture. His generous mind seemed to dart from place to place, casting a brilliant light wherever it turned. At moments of bafflement, I have repeatedly found in him a source at once of clarification and inspiration. This volume stands as powerful testimony to his generative power across a wide range of inquiries.
Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, USA
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Marek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History at Tallinn University, Estonia. He has recently published Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier, 2019), Juri Lotman â Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (ed., 2019) and A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli, 2020).
Peeter Torop is Professor of Semiotics of Culture at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is Co-Editor of the Sign Systems Studies journal and the Tartu Semiotics Library book series.