Yuri M. Lotman

Yuri M. Lotman was born in 1922 in what was then Petrograd, Russia, and died in 1993 in Tartu, Estonia. He was founder of the Moscow--Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics. His works translated into English include Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture and The Structure of the Artistic Text .

Yuri M. Lotman was born in 1922 in what was then Petrograd, Russia, and died in 1993 in Tartu, Estonia. He was founder of the Moscow--Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics. His works translated into English include Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture and The Structure of the Artistic Text . See less