Social Sciences in the "Other Europe" since 1945

Budapest : CEU Press, 2018.

Under the general editorship: V. Karady, A. Hincu

In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of the “other Europe.” It contributes a series of observations, on and from the margins of the field, which reflect on the condition of knowledge and research on what is perceived and thematized as the (semi-)periphery by the observers themselves. Rather than simply attempting to shift focus, the chapters explore scientific visions of the social off-center. They span the years from the immediate postwar period to the present, and the European semi-peripheries from Tartu to Portugal, with the majority of studies covering East Central Europe.

Chapters

Resort on the Outskirts: Towards the Premises of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School

Levchenko J., , in: Social Sciences in the "Other Europe" since 1945.: Budapest: CEU Press, 2018. P. 315–331.

The so-called Moscow-Tartu Semiotic School as a cultural project was very sensitive to its location. It owes to the qualities of the participants as well as of the place, that is to be observed in the paper. The domestic series Trudy po znakovym sistemam (Sign Systems Studies) had been published in 1964-1992, then has redesigned ...

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Keywords: холодная война, социальные науки, история идей, institutions, Cold War, институциональная история, social sciences, history of ideas, Центральная и Восточная Европа, Central and Eastern Europe