EAN: 9783030151676

SPACES AND MEANINGS - OLGA LAVRENOVA GEBUNDEN

This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use
of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research  it describes the power of the cultural
landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the
existence of culture in space  it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and
pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir
Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  who first observed that human activity has become a
geological force.Introducing time and space to the discussion  the author then describes the
nature of mythological time  eternity versus timelessness  and the semantics of sacred
landscapes  space and ritual. These concepts are further developed in discussions of the
metaphorical nature of cultural landscape  and the city as metaphor.The book explores semiotics
in the cultural landscape  examining the genesis of concepts from geographical images to signs
and the axiological dimension of geographical images. In her approach to the idea of cultural
landscape as text  she provides detailed examples  including the Russian landscape as agent
provocateur of the text  and the culture philosophical aspects and semantics of travel.It
establishes the cultural landscape as a phenomenon of culture that is fixed in geographical
space with the help of semiotic mechanisms-a specific area of culture of life possessing
functional and ontological self-sufficiency.This book appeals readers and researchers
interested in the philosophy of culture  semiotics of space  and the philosophical dimensions
of culture and geography.

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