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This short exposition on some research principles should not be seen as having any philosophical significance. The author is far from making any such claims. This is simply an attempt to share experience derived from researching specific facts in the history of culture. In addition, the author was motivated by a dissatisfaction with the way certain traditional theoretical categories have been reflected in the history of literature and culture.
Originally published as “Kul’tura kak sub’iekt i sama-sebe ob’iekt,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 23, 1989: 187–197. The translation here is from Iurii Lotman, Semiosfera, 639–647. Saint Petersburg: Iskusstvo—SPB, 2000.
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For a general overview of the work of the Constance School, see Warning (1988).
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So, for example, the projection of one and the same reality in the space of everyday speech or poetry, of poetry or painting, or of the right or left hemisphere of the human brain will yield untranslatable but similar images, constructed as metaphors.
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For more on the concept of semiosphere, see Lotman (2005).
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Lotman, J. (2019). Culture as a Subject and Its Own Object. In: Tamm, M. (eds) Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14710-5_6
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