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http://doi.org/10.332.34/SSR.22.2
Inna Merkoulova
Associate Professor, Founder and Director of the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN), Moscow
The article was prepared within the framework of the State Assignment of the State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN): “Digitalization and the formation of a modern information society: cognitive, economic, political and legal aspects” (FZNF – 2023 – 0004).
Abstract
The article is devoted to the philosophical origins of Greimassian semiotics. We analyze a little-known article “The Presentiment of Perfection” of the French–Lithuanian semiotician Algirdas Julien Greimas. The article tells us about his relationship with the Russian philosopher, poet and historian-medievalist Lev Karsavin (1882–1952), his professor at the Lithuanian University in Kaunas, in the 1930s. Under the influence of Karsavin’s ideas, Greimas returns to the dialogue with him in 1987, with the book On Imperfection (De l’imperfection). In the book, Greimas explores the human modes of textualising space in artistic languages. For Greimas and for Karsavin, a presentiment of perfection is the first step into the world of values.
Keywords: imperfection; presentiment of perfection; philosophical origins; history of semiotics
