Inna Merkoulova
Algirdas Julien Greimas and Lev Karsavin: a dialogue between semiotics and philosophy.
Abstract
Our research is devoted to a dialogue between semiotics and philosophy. We will present our translation into French of the little-known text of the French-Lithuanian semiotician Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917 - 1992) about his relationship with the Russian philosopher, poet and historian-medievalist Lev Karsavin (1882-1952), who was his professor at the University of Lithuania in Kaunas in the 1930s. Under the influence of the approach and ideas of Karsavin, Greimas will return to the dialogue
with his teacher in 1987, with the book "On imperfection".
Bionote
Inna Merkoulova, PhD, is Assistant Director for Science and Education, Russian Center of Science and Culture in Paris and Associate Researcher at Paris-Sorbonne University. She is the author of "Graphics and Enunciation. Peripheral Punctuation in Modern French Prose" (doctoral dissertation, Limoges, Moscow, 2001), translator of semiotic books: J. Lotman “Culture and Explosion” (French tr., Limoges and Pulim, 2004); A. J. Greimas and J. Fontanille, “The Semiotics of Passions: From States of Affairs to States of Feeling” (Russian tr., Moscow, LKI-URSS, 2007).
Abstract
Our research is devoted to a dialogue between semiotics and philosophy. We will present our translation into French of the little-known text of the French-Lithuanian semiotician Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917 - 1992) about his relationship with the Russian philosopher, poet and historian-medievalist Lev Karsavin (1882-1952), who was his professor at the University of Lithuania in Kaunas in the 1930s. Under the influence of the approach and ideas of Karsavin, Greimas will return to the dialogue
with his teacher in 1987, with the book "On imperfection".
Bionote
Inna Merkoulova, PhD, is Assistant Director for Science and Education, Russian Center of Science and Culture in Paris and Associate Researcher at Paris-Sorbonne University. She is the author of "Graphics and Enunciation. Peripheral Punctuation in Modern French Prose" (doctoral dissertation, Limoges, Moscow, 2001), translator of semiotic books: J. Lotman “Culture and Explosion” (French tr., Limoges and Pulim, 2004); A. J. Greimas and J. Fontanille, “The Semiotics of Passions: From States of Affairs to States of Feeling” (Russian tr., Moscow, LKI-URSS, 2007).