Juri Lotman

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Juri Lotman
20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolTartu–Moscow Semiotic School
InstitutionsUniversity of Tartu
Main interests
Semiotics

Juri Lotman (

University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library
) which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals, is immense.

Biography

Juri Lotman was born in the

) (she lived in Saint-Petersburg).

Lotman graduated from the secondary school in 1939 with excellent marks and was admitted to

Leningrad State University without having to pass any exams. There he studied philology, which was a choice he made due to Lidia Lotman's university friends (actually he attended university lectures in philology whilst he was still at secondary school).[citation needed] His professors at university were the renowned lecturers and academicians Gukovsky, Azadovsky, Tomashevsky and Propp. He was drafted in 1940 and during World War II served as a radio operator in the artillery. Demobilized from the army in 1946, he returned to his studies in the university and received his diploma with distinction in 1950. His first published research papers focused on Russian literary and social thought of the 18th and 19th century.[citation needed
]

Lotman moved to the

doctoral dissertation, also at the Leningrad State University,[3] and the following year achieved the rank of professor.[4]

In the early '60s Lotman established academic contacts with a group of structuralist linguists in Moscow, and invited them in the first Summer School on Secondary Modeling Systems, that took place in

Isaak I. Revzin and Georgii Lesskis. As a result of their collective work, they established a theoretical framework for the study of the semiotics of culture
.

This school has been widely known for its journal

Pushkin; among his most influential works in semiotics and structuralism are Semiotics of Cinema, Analysis of the Poetic Text and The Structure of the Artistic Text. In 1984, Lotman coined the term semiosphere
. In 1991 he received the Gold Medal of Philology, the highest award for a philological scholar.[6]

Juri Lotman's wife Zara Mints was also a well-known scholar of Russian literature and Tartu professor. They have three sons:

Bibliography

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References

Further reading

  • Andrews, Edna 2003. Conversations with Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Andrews, Edna 2003. The importance of Lotmanian semiotics to sign theory and the cognitive neurosciences. Sign Systems Studies 43(2/3): 347–364.
  • Elkouch, Hassib 2016. Juri Lotman in Arabic: A bibliography. Sign Systems Studies 44(3): 452–455.
  • Grishakova, Marina, and Silvi Salupere. Theoretical Schools and Circles in the Twentieth-Century Humanities: Literary Theory, History, Philosophy. Routledge, 2015.
  • Kull, Kalevi 1999. Towards biosemiotics with Yuri Lotman. Semiotica 127(1/4): 115–131.
  • Kull, Kalevi 2011. Juri Lotman in English: Bibliography. Sign Systems Studies 39(2/4): 343–356. See.
  • Kull, Kalevi; Gramigna, Remo 2014. Juri Lotman in English: Updates to bibliography. Sign Systems Studies 42(4): 549–552.
  • with Timo Maran 2022. Juri Lotman and life sciences. In Marek Tamm & Peeter Torop (eds.), The Companion to Juri Lotman: A Semiotic Theory of Culture. Bloomsbury, 461–475.
  • Lepik, Peet 2008. Universals in the Context of Juri Lotman’s Semiotics. (Tartu Semiotics Library 7.) Tartu: Tartu University Press.
  • Mandelker, Amy 1994. Semiotizing the sphere: Organicist theory in Lotman, Bakhtin, and Vernadsky. Publications of the Modern Language Association 109(3): 385–396.
  • Shukman, Ann 1977. Literature and Semiotics: A Study of the Writings of Ju. M. Lotman. Amsterdam: North Holland.
  • Waldstein, Maxim 2008. The Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School of Semiotics. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller.

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