Juri Lotman -- culture, memory and history : essays in cultural semiotics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lotman, I︠U︡. M. (I︠U︡riĭ Mikhaĭlovich), 1922-1993 (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Tamm, Marek (Editor), Baer, Brian C., 1985- (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Juri Lotmans Semiotic Theory of History and Cultural Memory
  • 2.Translator's Preface
  • Part I Culture
  • 3.The Phenomenon of Culture
  • 4.The "Contract" and "Self-surrender" as Archetypal Models of Culture
  • 5
  • Toward a Theory of Cultural Interaction: The Semiotic Aspect
  • 6.Culture as a Subject and its own Object
  • 7. On the Dynamics of Culture
  • 8. The Role of Art in the Dynamics of Culture
  • Part II Memory
  • 9. Memory in a Culturological Perspective
  • 10. Cultural Memory
  • 11. Some Thoughts on Typologies of Culture
  • 12. The Symbol in the System of Culture
  • Part III History
  • 13. Clio at the Crossroads
  • 14. A Divine Pronouncement or a Game of Chance? The Law-governed and the Accidental in the Historical Process
  • 15. Technological Progress as a Culturological Problem
  • 16. The Time of Troubles as a Cultural Mechanism: Toward a Typology of Russian Cultural History
  • 17. Afterword: (Re)constructing the Drafts of Past.