Непредсказуемые механизмы культуры

by Yuri M. Lotman, Юрий Лотман

This book, dictated by cultural semiotic Juri Lotman at the end of his life, completes his former work "Culture and explosion". Due to difficult editorial history this work remained for a long time unknown to the reader. Here the author analyses the global rules of history, the meaning of explosion and unpredictability in culture as well as art as a workshop of unpredictability.

230 pages, Paperback

Published May 25, 2010

About the author

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Лотман, Estonian: Juri Lotman) – a prominent Soviet formalist critic, semiotician, and culturologist. Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He was the founder of structural semiotics in culturology and is considered as the first Soviet structuralist by writing his book On the Delimitation of Linguistic and Philological Concepts of Structure (1963). The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles and the archive of his letters, now kept in the scientific library of the University of Tartu, and which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian intellectuals, is immense.