Open AccessBarthes and Lotman: Ideology vs culture
Author(s) -
Patrick Sériot
Publication year - 2016
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.2016.44.3.05
Subject(s) - semiotics , ideology , structuralism (philosophy of science) , semiotics of culture , cultural studies , object (grammar) , politics , sociology , common ground , social semiotics , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , social science , anthropology , political science , law , communication
Despite both being great names in semiotics, Roland Barthes and Juri Lotman have more differences than they share similarities – not only because of their different political and historico-cultural environments, but also because they do not have the same object of study: it is ‘ideology’ for Barthes, and ‘culture’ for Lotman. Thus, there is no intellectual common ground between them, yet comparing them can lead us to a more important question: what is semiotics, and what has structuralism to do with it?