Thinking the new after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Juri Lotman's dialogism of history

This paper reads semiotician Juri Lotman's later works (1985-1993) against the background of the debates on historicity and temporality that were triggered in the West by the fall of the Berlin Wall, from Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' to François Hartog's 'present...

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Published in:Rethinking history 2020-04, Vol.24 (2), p.184-208
Main Author: Monticelli, Daniele
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
chance
dialogism of history
future
History after 1989
Juri Lotman
unpredictability
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Summary:This paper reads semiotician Juri Lotman's later works (1985-1993) against the background of the debates on historicity and temporality that were triggered in the West by the fall of the Berlin Wall, from Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' to François Hartog's 'presentism'. The collapse of the USSR provoked a shift of attention in Lotman's work from signs and texts to historical processes that he rethinks from the point of view of change and novelty, paying particular attention to the place of human freedom and choice in unpredictable historical circumstances. This gives me a new perspective from which to readdress a series of shortcomings in the post-Cold War Western debates on historical time.
ISSN:1364-2529
1470-1154
DOI:10.1080/13642529.2020.1813932