Open AccessLotman on mimesis
Author(s) -
Jeļena Grigorjeva
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
sign systems studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1736-7409
pISSN - 1406-4243
DOI - 10.12697/sss.2003.31.1.09
Subject(s) - semiotics , transcendence (philosophy) , symbol (formal) , epistemology , representation (politics) , mysticism , german , object (grammar) , philosophy , neoplatonism , similarity (geometry) , positivism , linguistics , sociology , image (mathematics) , computer science , theology , artificial intelligence , politics , political science , law
The article considers some basic notions of semiotics of mimesis by Juri Lotman, such as model, similarity, and relations between an object and its representation. The way Lotman defines and interprets these notions is compared with definitions given by adherents of the “semiotics of the transcendence” (German and Russian romanticism and Neoplatonism, Russian symbolism, theory of mystical symbol). A certain typological proximity of some important theoretical statements ensures the necessity to revise the traditional image of Tartu semiotics as a purely positivistic school of thought.