Sphere of Understanding: Tartu Dialogues with Semioticians

The book presents dialogues with fourteen highly influential semioticians: Juri Lotman, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Boris Uspenskij, Umberto Eco, Paolo Fabbri, Myrdene Anderson, Winfried Nöth, Gunther Kress, Roland Posner, Stuart Kauffman, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Terrence Deacon, Paul Cobley, and Jaan Valsiner. They have all made a remarkable impact on contemporary research in the Tartu centre of semiotics. As well as these remarkable dialogues, the first part of the volume features an illuminating sequence of chapters on topics including the importance of dialogues, the historical roots and context of semiotics in Tartu since the 19th century, plus the main principles formulated in Jakob von Uexküll's and Juri Lotman's works.

Contents

Contexts

The importance of dialogues

The aim of this book

On the genre of interviews with semioticians

Tartu as a point of departure

The beginnings of semiotics in Estonia

Uexküll's legacy

Lotman's legacy

The interviewees

Dialogues

Juri Lotman

Vyacheslav Ivanov

Boris Uspenskij

Umberto Eco

Paolo Fabbri

Myrdene Anderson

Winfried Nöth

Gunther Kress

Roland Posner

Stuart Kauffman

Jesper Hoffmeyer

Terrence Deacon

Paul Cobley

Jaan Valsiner

Κατανόηση

For a detailed table of contents, please see here.