Russia (bbabo.net), - February 28 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of literary critic and culturologist Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman. On the anniversary of the scientist, the Russia-Culture TV channel will show a new documentary film "YurMikh", as well as television lectures from Lotman's author's cycle "Conversations about Russian Culture".
Yuri Lotman was not just a scientist, but a thinker and philosopher, a seeker of new paths in science, a brilliant lecturer and an excellent teacher, an extraordinary and bright person. The main business of his life was semiotics - the science of signs and sign systems. In the years when semiotics was practically banned in the USSR, Yuri Lotman managed to found the famous semiotic school in Tartu.
Yuri Lotman glorified not only the University of Tartu, where he worked for many years, but also Estonia and the USSR. "When I visit a foreign country, I usually find that Estonia is known as the country where Professor Lotman lives," President of the Republic of Estonia Lennart Meri said about the great scientist. And Yuri Mikhailovich was born in Petrograd, he received his secondary education in one of the oldest educational institutions in the country, the first school in St. Petersburg, founded back in 1709. After the revolution, it became known as the Soviet Unified Labor School, but in 1996 it was returned to its historical name - Petrishula.
During the war, Lotman was at the front, received awards. Returning to his native city, in 1950 he graduated from the philological faculty of Leningrad University and wanted to stay at the department, but it did not work out. But he was invited to the post of senior teacher at the Pedagogical Institute of Tartu. After 4 years, he became the head of the department of Russian literature at the University of Tartu. In the academic circles of post-war Estonia, there was a rather liberal atmosphere, which made it possible to calmly engage in science.
Yuri Lotman is known as a researcher of Russian literature of the 18th - 19th centuries. For his work on the novel in verse "Eugene Onegin", in 1993 he received the academic prize named after A. S. Pushkin. The miotic method of text analysis has changed Russian literary criticism.
The name of the film "YurMikh" (broadcast on February 28, 20:30) included the nickname of Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman. So his relatives, colleagues, students called him behind his back. And there was no familiarity in it. "The high academicism of the scientist in Lotman organically combined with the democratism of an old soldier who went through the war," says his student, historian, professor at the Higher School of Economics Vadim Parsamov. The film is based on personal documents from Yuri Mikhailovich's archive, his letters to relatives and friends, memoirs - "Non-memoirs", and drawings - caricatures of himself and the events of his life. Famous scientists participate in the film: Fyodor Uspensky, Mikhail Yampolsky, Vadim Rudnev, Vadim Parsamov, Igor Pilshchikov, Lyubov Kiseleva, Peeter Torop and others.
From February 28 to March 4 on the air of the channel "Russia K" "Conversations about Russian culture". This is the author's program of Yuri Lotman, in which he also appears as a talented storyteller, about the Russian nobility of the Pushkin era, about the role of culture in human life and society.
The release of the program "Culture and Intelligence" on the air on February 28 at 14:15 and 23:40. “Culture is a kind of ecology of human society or the atmosphere that humanity creates around itself in order to continue to exist,” says Lotman, who argues in this issue that culture is a spiritual concept, and intelligence is a psychological property of a person.
Release "Tolerance" - March 1 at 14:20 and 23:40. “Culture is like nature: experiencing the aggressive influence of man, it still wins, because its resources are huge and indestructible,” Yuri Lotman says in it.
"Protection of goodness and justice" - this episode can be viewed on March 2, at 14:15 and 23:40. Continuing to think about intelligence and culture, Yuri Mikhailovich says that the concept of "intelligence" includes not only kindness and tolerance, but also steadfastness, firmness and even heroism.
In the issue of "Patriotism" - March 3 at 14:15 and 23:40 - Lotman talks about how in Russia in the 18th - 19th centuries the type of true patriots developed - "people of art, people of books and people of thought."
The final issue of "Noble Culture" - March 4 at 14:15 and 23:40. "When we talk about intelligence and what opposes it, one cannot miss such a psychological nuance: intelligence implies a developed sense of shame." What is "psychological shame" and how is this feeling related to ethical prohibitions? Yuri Lotman shares his thoughts on this topic.
In the meantime
On the Public Television of Russia (OTR) - the premiere of the documentary "Yuri Lotman's Space". Broadcast on February 28 at 17:00 and at 23:50.
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