• ISBN13: 9788126911349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
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• Publication Date: October 24, 2024
• Pages: 266
• Original Price: 1295.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 470 grams

Receding Temporal Horizon analyses Eastern Europe's societies, histories and traditions, too frequently reduced to trivialized images in the Western cultural imaginary. It testifies to the distinctive social experiences of thinkers that pivotally reshaped key 20th-century semiotics, explaining how meaning and value are collectively constructed by hinging on the horizon of time. Fernée and Bogdanov's semiotic study begins with the Renaissance, which led to the bifurcation of Eastern and Western Europe into dual semiotic realms. The authors analyse Eastern European thinkers like Koyré, Bakhtin, Todorov and Kristeva, whose semiotic works challenge Western assumptions about universal experience. They also examine three significant 20th-century meaning and value production theories: structuralism, pragmatism and poststructuralism. The reassessment concludes with Yuri Lotman's vision of the Renaissance as centring a multi-sided Bakhtinian individual. Challenging cultural studies assumptions about a homogeneous and logical modernism spreading from the West to the world, they expose a double consciousness where “cross-fertilisation” is the germinal force in all cultural growth.

Tadd Graham Fernée teaches the history of constitutional law, research methodology, international relations and translation. He has authored Beyond the Circle of Violence and Progress: Ethics and Material Development in India and Egypt, Anti-Colonial Struggle to Independence (2023), and Enlightenment and Violence: Modernity and Nation-making in India, Turkey and Iran (2014), and co-authored The Intellectual Thought of Al-Ghazālī (2024) and Islam, Democracy and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World (2014).

Stanislav Bogdanov, with a background in linguistics and over three decades of teaching and research experience, has interests popping up at every intersection of academia, spanning across the humanities, arts and hard sciences. He is primarily focused on meaning-making and epistemology, wherever it contributes to our understanding of knowledge and truth. His published work includes Hacking Hot Potatoes: The Cookbook (2013) and Two Viewpoints on Pedagogical Usability in eLearning for Languages (2013). He also edited the NBU anthology Tradition as Inspiration (2014).