In METHOD January 2022 started with debates on the content, main
approaches and principal outlooks of Juri Lotman jubilee volume of our Yearbook.
Fairly pragmatic discussions on editorial priorities immediately turned into a far
more essential consideration of what may be called Lotmanean momentum – the
driving force that motivated Lotman’s work, that now maintains present traditions
of fellow semioticians and opens up prospects to future efforts of new generations
of scholars.
We publish excerpts from those debates and hope they may serve as a kind
of introduction to the current issue of METHOD