The Formation of Russian Non-linguistic Structuralism
12/15/2010 - 14:00 - 14:00
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On Wednesday, December 15 Nikolai Poselyagini, the Juri Lotman
grantee at Tallinn University, will give a public lecture entitled
"The Formation of Russian Non-linguistic Structuralism". The lecture takes
place at 12.00 in Room M-225 (TU Mare building, Uus-Sadama 5).The paper to
be presented is devoted to the early history of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic
School, i.e. the period of the 1950s until the early 1960s. At first there
was no unified or structured semiotic school of thought in the Tartu-Moscow
Semiotic School and at least four different groups existed from the
beginning. These groups differed significantly in their understanding of
the specifics of the structural methodology as well as structuralism
itself. At first, a notion proposed by the Moscow group of V.V.Ivanov
& V.N.Toporov dominated, defining structuralism as an all-embracing
"big paradigm", but in the end it was Lotman's concept of semiotics that
was accepted as the most convenient concept suitable for further scientific
elaboration. Finally, this concept formed the foundation for the theory of
Tartu-Moscow School. The potential of this school of thought was not fully
realized at first, but it has now become very relevant in describing
anthropological concepts in Russian and European humanities.The lecture
will be held in English.
grantee at Tallinn University, will give a public lecture entitled
"The Formation of Russian Non-linguistic Structuralism". The lecture takes
place at 12.00 in Room M-225 (TU Mare building, Uus-Sadama 5).The paper to
be presented is devoted to the early history of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic
School, i.e. the period of the 1950s until the early 1960s. At first there
was no unified or structured semiotic school of thought in the Tartu-Moscow
Semiotic School and at least four different groups existed from the
beginning. These groups differed significantly in their understanding of
the specifics of the structural methodology as well as structuralism
itself. At first, a notion proposed by the Moscow group of V.V.Ivanov
& V.N.Toporov dominated, defining structuralism as an all-embracing
"big paradigm", but in the end it was Lotman's concept of semiotics that
was accepted as the most convenient concept suitable for further scientific
elaboration. Finally, this concept formed the foundation for the theory of
Tartu-Moscow School. The potential of this school of thought was not fully
realized at first, but it has now become very relevant in describing
anthropological concepts in Russian and European humanities.The lecture
will be held in English.