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

1. Introduction: Juri Lotman's Semiotic Theory of History and Cultural Memory2.Translator's PrefacePart I Culture3.The Phenomenon of Culture4.The "Contract" and "Self-surrender" as Archetypal Models of Culture5.- Toward a Theory of Cultural Interaction: The Semiotic Aspect6.Culture as a Subject and its own Object7. On the Dynamics of Culture8. The Role of Art in the Dynamics of CulturePart II Memory9. Memory in a Culturological Perspective10. Cultural Memory11. Some Thoughts on Typologies of Culture12. The Symbol in the System of CulturePart III History.13. Clio at the Crossroads14. A Divine Pronouncement or a Game of Chance? The Law-governed and the Accidental in the Historical Process15. Technological Progress as a Culturological Problem16. The Time of Troubles as a Cultural Mechanism: Toward a Typology of Russian Cultural History17. Afterword: (Re)constructing the Drafts of Past.