Universe of the Mind
A Semiotic Theory of Culture
Yuri M. Lotman
Introduction by Umberto Eco
Translated by Ann Shukman
A major book by one of the initiators of cultural studies.
"Universe of the Mind is an ambitious, complex, and wide-ranging
book that semioticians, textual critics, and those interested in
cultural studies will find stimulating and immensely suggestive."
Journal of Communication
"Soviet semiotics offers a distinctive, richly productive
approach to literary and cultural studies and Universe of the Mind
represents a summation of the intellectual career of the man who
has done most to guarantee this." Slavic and East European
Journal
Universe of the Mind addresses three main areas: meaning and
text, culture, and history. The result is a full-scale attempt to
demonstrate the workings of the semiotic space or intellectual
world. Part One is concerned with the ways that texts generate
meaning. Part Two addresses Lotman s central idea of the
semiosphere the domain in which all semiotic systems can function
presented through an analogy with the global biosphere. Part Three
focuses on semiotics from the point of view of history.
A seminal text in cultural semiotics, the book s ambitious scope
also makes it applicable to disciplines outside semiotics. The book
will be of great interest to those concerned with cultural studies,
anthropology, Slavic studies, critical theory, philosophy, and
historiography.
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is the founder of the Moscow-Tartu
School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural
semiotics."
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