Sphere of Understanding

The book presents dialogues with fourteen highly influential semioticians: Juri Lotman , Vyacheslav Ivanov , Boris Uspenskij , Umberto Eco , Paolo Fabbri , Myrdene Anderson , Winfried Nöth , Gunther Kress , Roland Posner , Stuart Kauffman , Jesper Hoffmeyer , Terrence Deacon , Paul Cobley , and Jaan Valsiner . They have all made a remarkable impact on contemporary research in the Tartu centre of semiotics. As well as these remarkable dialogues, the first part of the volume features an illuminati