Sign Systems Studies 45 (3/4). Special issue: Semiotics and history: Boris Uspenskij 80

CONTENTS

* Marek Tamm: Introduction: Semiotics and history revisited

Practising historical semiotics

* Boris Uspenskij: Semiotics and culture: The perception of time as a semiotic problem
* Carlo Ginzburg: Civilization and barbarism
* Mihhail Lotman: History as geography: In search for the Russian identity
* Ilya Kalinin: The figure of the impostor to the throne in Russian political culture: Between sacralization and mimesis
* Tzvetan Todorov: Two approaches to the humanities: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Germaine Tillion

Semiotics of history in the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics

* Peeter Torop: Semiotics of cultural history
* Mikhail Trunin: Semiosphere and history: Toward the origins of the semiotic approach to history
* Elżbieta Hałas: The future orientation of culture and the memory of the past in the making of history
* Taras Boyko: Reading Uspenskij: Soviet ‘semiotics of history’ in the West
* Taras Boyko: Boris Uspenskij in English: Bibliography
* Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull: Boris Uspenskij on history, linguistics and semiotics

Open Access: https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/issue/view/45.3-4