The center-periphery dynamics in Yuri Lotman’s later works: A way forward for new epistemological dialogues
Abstract: In this contribution I will explore an aspect of Lotman’s culturological method, which consists of his unwavering focus on the conflictual-energetic dimension of the semiotic life of human beings: a dimension he identified, since the 1970s works, in a kind of “original” tension, that is, the center-periphery dynamics. Taking up this idea extensively in his later writings and emphasizing the concept of “conflict” (конфликт) with all its synonymic variants (бинарность - binarity, противоречие - contradiction, столкновение - collision, борьба - struggle, драка – fight etc.), the RussianEstonian semiotician seems to suggest that oppositional tension (difference) is a primary, maybe ancestral, energy that drives the semiosphere. In this perspective, the vision of conflict in Lotman, in addition to finding its highest expression in the conceptualization of the “explosion”, can be a way forward for new epistemological dialogues.
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| Format: | Artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Departamento de Letras Orientais
2022
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| Subjects: | SEMIOTICA, Lotman, Yuri, 1922-1993, DESCOLONIZACION, |
| Online Access: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/15691 |
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