This book examines the history of Yuri Lotman's Tartu (or
Moscow-Tartu) School of Semiotics, which was active in the Soviet
Union in the 1960s-1980s, and combines a comparative perspective on
the Tartu paradigm with close attention to its social context.
Comparing Tartu with other major idioms in cultural theory from
Russian Formalism to (post-) structuralism, this study reconstructs
its evolution from the early ideal of "exact science" to a variety
of conceptual frameworks which combined an emphasis on the autonomy
of cultural texts with elaborate analysis of the social and
intellectual environment of their production and reception. Working
from life history interviews, archival research and textual
analysis, the book demonstrates how this evolution reflected and
refracted the intellectuals' changing strategies of negotiating
personal and professional autonomy and authority within Soviet
academia. The Tartu School serves as a window into the distinctive
character of intellectual production and the phenomenon of an
unofficial public sphere in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union, and
challenges still dominant Cold War assumptions about the nature of
Soviet science, culture and society.
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