The semiosphere in the mirror of life = La semiosfera nello specchio della vita

Sedda F.

2022-01-01

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Abstract

This work returns to the contents of the essay On the Semiosphere looking at them through the perspective of everyday life deposited in the correspondence between Lotman and Uspenskij. Among the results that will emerge there is the significance of the relations of power and belief that mark intellectual work; the intertwining and reciprocal influence between the traumas / joys of life and the development of thought; the creative cir- cularity that supports both the trend of experiences and that of Lotman’s semiospheric vision; the fundamentality, if possible made even more funda- mental by this unprecedented perspective, of relationality in the processes of meaning-generation; the explicit attempt, contradictory in every sense of the term, to affirm a semiotic vision and language at the same time based on dialogue and not ancillary to other disciplines.