READINGS OF JAKOB VON UEXKLL

AND JURI LOTMAN

Introduction

FLSE.00.251
RIIN MAGNUS, ELIN STISTE
UNIVERSITY OF TARTU
JAKOBI 2306
30 AUGUST 2016
JURI LOTMAN
(19221993)
BIOGRAPHY & CONTEXT
POLITICAL CONTEXT UNIVERSITY CONTEXT BIOGRAPHICAL EVENTS
STALIN ERA 1927-1953 FEODOR KLEMENT Lotman born in 1922
1951-1970 Moved to Tartu in 1950

KHRUSCHEV ERA KLEMENT Ass. prof. 1954, PhD 1961

1953-1964 (THAW) 1951-1970 Prof. of Russian lit. 1963
Lectures on Structural Poetics 1964
First Summer School 1964
BREZHNEV ERA KLEMENT 1951-1970 Head of dept. of Russian lit. 1960-1977
(1964-1982) ARNOLD KOOP Structure of the Artistic Text 1970
(STAGNATION) 1970-1988 Theses 1973
Moved to dept. of foreign lit. 1980
ANDROPOV 1982-1984 KOOP 1970-1988 Laboratory of history and semiotics
CHERNENKO 1984-1985 1983

GORBACHEV 1985-1991 KOOP 1970-1988 Universe of the Mind 1990

(PERESTROIKA 1986, JRI KRNER 1988-1993
GLASNOST 1988)
YELTSIN 1991-1993 KRNER 1988-1993 Creation of dept. of semiotics 1992
Culture and Explosion 1992
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28 FEBRUARY 1922, PETROGRAD - 28 OCTOBER 1993, TARTU

1939 University of Leningrad

1940-1945 WWII
1946 resumed studies at the University of Leningrad
1950 graduated from the University of Leningrad; move to Tartu
1952 defended his dissertation A. N. Radishchev in opposition with Karamzins socio-
political views and aesthetics
1954 started teaching at the University of Tartu
1958 Lotmans first monograph Andrei Sergeyevich Kaisarov and the socio-literary
battle of his times published
1960 became the director of the cathedra (~department) of Russian literature (1960-
1977)
1962 defended doctral dissertation The developments of Russian pre-Decabrist
literature
1963 elected professor of the cathedra of Russian literature
JURI LOTMAN
28 FEBRUARY 1922, PETROGRAD - 28 OCTOBER 1993, TARTU

1964 First Summer School at Kriku;

1964 Lectures in Structural Poetics published (= 1st issue of Trudy po znakovym
sistemam, later Sign Systems Studies)
1966 Second Summer School at Kriku
1968 Third Summer School at Kriku
1970 Fourth Summer School at Kriku
1970 Structure of the Artistic Text, Articles on cultural typology I published
1972 Analysis of Poetic Text
1973 Theses on the semiotic study of cultures
1974 Fifth Summer School of Kriku (took place in winter)
1975 Pushkins novel in verse Jevgeni Onegin
1977 Culture as collective intellect and problems of artifical intellect
1984 On the semiosphere
1990 Universe of the Mind
1992 Department of semiotics established, J. Lotman becomes professor of semiotics
1992 Culture and Explosion
 J. LOTMANS MAIN WORKS
1964 " (Lectures on Structural Poetics)
1970 " . . 1, T (Materials
for the course on theory of literature. Part 1, Typology of culture)
1970 " (Structure of the Artistic Text)
1972 " . (Analysis of the Poetic Text.
Structure of the Verse)
1973 " . . 2,
(Materials for the course on theory of literature. Part 2, Papers on typology of cultures)
1973 Uspenski, B. A.; Ivanov, V. V.; Toporov, V. N.; Pjatigorski, A. M.; Lotman, J. M. Theses
on the semiotic study of cultures (as applied to Slavic texts)
1973 " (Semiotics of Film and Problems of
Film Aesthetics)
1980 " . . " ": (A. S. Pushkins Novel
Evgeni Onegin: Commentary)
1981" : (Aleksandr Sergeevich
Pushkin: Biography of the Writer)
1990 Universe of the Mind
1992 (Culture and Explosion)
1996 (Inside Thinking Worlds)
REFERENCES

ernov, Igor 1982. Juri Lotman ja kirjandusteadusliku mtte areng [Juri Lotman
and the development of ideas in literary studies]. Looming 2: 270-276.
Eco, Umberto 2000. Introduction. Yuri M. Lotman, Universe of the Mind.
Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, viixiii.
Lotman, Mihhail 2001. Paradoksaalne semiosfr (Jrelsna) [Paradoxical
semiosphere (Afterword)]. Juri Lotman, Kultuur ja plahvatus [Culture and Explosion].
Tallinn: Varrak, 215226.
Torop, Peeter 1999. Semiootika piiril [On the border of semiotics]. Juri Lotman.
Semiosfrist [Of Semiosphere] Tallinn: Vagabund, 387404.