"This book is an introduction to the semiotic theory of one of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, the Russian literary scholar and semiotician Yuri Lotman. The book offers a new look at Lotman's profound legacy and attempts to demonstrate how Lotman's holistic theory, transcending the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines, offers a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to culture. This study also makes Lotman accessible to a larger audience not limited only to specialists in Slavic studies and semiotics, covering a wide range of topics, from artificial intelligence to the role of an individual in history"--

Table of Contents

Contexts Culture as System Culture as Text Semiosphere Universal Mind Conclusion: The World as Text

About the Author

ALEKSEI SEMENENKO is a research fellow in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stockholm University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Russian Literature from Stockholm University. He is the author of Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation (2007) and other research publications in semiotics, literature and translation.