Semiotics has no beginning
Semiotics has no beginning

Summary/Abstract: Juri Lotman has once said that semiotics is a field that one should not begin with. Moreover, it has also been said that it is not meant for those who are not yet familiar with some field of study other than semiotics. Such a view of semiotics as a superior, highly intellectual discipline, however, brings along an unexpected and interesting conflict with statements about the role and importance of semiotics. According to some opinions, semiotics binds the methodologies of the humanities together and offers a common theoretical basis for all qualitative approaches. As such, it appears as an equivalent to the emperor of quantitative science — physics. Alongside that timeless function semiotics also has a specific mission relating to time: it is supposed to be the knowledge of the 21st century as John Deely has underscored — and he is not the only one to hold this view.

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