The murmur of culture: semiotics and the meaning of life

  • Massimo Leone University of Turin-Italy
Keywords: Leo Tolstoy, Religious Conversio, Meaning of Life, Cultural Semiotics, Community of Belief.

Abstract

The article proposes a semiotic reading of one of Tolstoy’s most enigmatic writings, Ispoved’ (Confession), so as to formulate a hypothesis about the genesis and the meaning of cultural change. Why, in the second part of his life, and after a deep existential crisis, did the Russian literary genius decide that the form of life of the people was the only one able to grant him spiritual tranquility? How can this choice be read in the frame of a semiotics of culture and forms of life?

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Author Biography

Massimo Leone, University of Turin-Italy

Profesor de Semiótica y Semiótica de la Cultura en el Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Torino, Italia. Licenciado en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad de Siena, máster en Estudios sobre Texto e Imagen del Trinity College de Dublín, doctorado en Ciencias de la Religión de la Sorbona, Doctorado en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Friburgo (Suiza)

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Published
2016-06-30
How to Cite
Leone, M. (2016). The murmur of culture: semiotics and the meaning of life. Religación, 1(2), 110-127. Retrieved from https://revista.religacion.com/index.php/religacion/article/view/47
Issue
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2016): DOSSIER: Subjectivizations and new political emancipations in Latin America
Section
General Section