Reading Uspenskij: Soviet ‘semiotics of history’ in the West
Reading Uspenskij: Soviet ‘semiotics of history’ in the West
Author(s): Taras BoykoSubject(s): History, Semiotics / Semiology, Social Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Hermeneutics
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: Boris Uspenskij; semiotics of history; Historia sub specie semioticae; cultural-semiotic approach; the Tartu–Moscow School;
Summary/Abstract: The article explores the reception of Boris Uspenskij’s writings and ideas outside of the Soviet Union, primarily in Western European and North American academic contexts. The present brief overview of Uspenskij’s academic reception covers the translations of his best-known scholarly works [first and foremost “Historia sub specie semioticae” and “Istoriya i semiotika (Vospriyatie vremeni kak semioticheskaya problema)”] into English, French, Spanish, German and other European languages, as well as various references to Uspenskij’s ideas on what nowadays would be categorized as ‘semiotics of history’, or thoughts at least in some way related to the ‘cultural-semiotic approach to history’ of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics.
Journal: Σημειωτκή - Sign Systems Studies
- Issue Year: 45/2017
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 380-394
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
