Algirdas julien greimas biography of albert einstein

THE SEMIOTICS OF A. J. GREIMAS: AN INTRODUCTION

MARVIN KATILIUS-BOYDSTUN
College of St. Francis

Algirdas Julius (or Julien) Greimas was born in Tula, Russia, on March 9, 1917, of Lithuanian parents.1 He graduated from Rygiškių Jono gimnazija in Marijampolė, Lithuania in 1934, studied law at Kaunas University, and completed his undergraduate studies in France, graduating from Grenoble University in 1939. He began graduate studies in France, but returned in 1940 to Lithuania, where he taught, worked as an editor, and wrote literary-critical articles and more broadly based cultural criticism (which he continued to write for émigré periodicals in the 1940s and 50s). His most recent work in Lithuanian includes two books on mythology, Apie Dievus ir žm

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Algirdas J. Greimas’s Egology

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Then it spoke to me without voice : “You know it, Zarathustra ?” And I cried with fright at this whispering, and the blood left my face ; but I remained silent.

Then it spoke to me again : “You know it, Zarathustra, but you do not say it !”

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Translated from the Lithuanian by Jūratė Levina. “Greimo egologija”, in A. Sverdiolas and E. Landowski (eds.), Algirdas Julius Greimas. Asmuo ir idėjos, vol. 2 (hereafter cited as AJG2), Vilnius, Baltos lankos, 2019. — Translator’s note : In this article, all English translations of Greimas’s articles or letters written by him in Lithuanian, whenever not accompanied with a reference to a previously published English translation, are ours.

1. The Egological Perspective1

Egology is a philosophical analysis, conceptio

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Epistemic Narrativity in Albert Einstein’s Treatise on Special Relativity

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