Juri Lotman - Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics

1. Introduction: Juri Lotman's Semiotic Theory of History and Cultural Memory 2.Translator's Preface Part I Culture 3.The Phenomenon of Culture 4.The "Contract" and "Self-surrender" as Archetypal Models of Culture 5.- Toward a Theory of Cultural Interaction: The Semiotic Aspect 6.Culture as a Subject and its own Object 7. On the Dynamics of Culture 8. The Role of Art in the Dynamics of Culture Part II Memory 9. Memory in a Culturological Perspective 10. Cultural Memory 11. Some Thoughts on Typologies of Culture 12. The Symbol in the System of Culture Part III History. 13. Clio at the Crossroads 14. A Divine Pronouncement or a Game of Chance? The Law-governed and the Accidental in the Historical Process 15. Technological Progress as a Culturological Problem 16. The Time of Troubles as a Cultural Mechanism: Toward a Typology of Russian Cultural History 17. Afterword: (Re)constructing the Drafts of Past.