The Generation: Between Everyday Myth and Social Science

Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis

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Abstract

Translated from "Continuité et discontinuité: vivre sa génération", in Eric Landowski, Société réfléchie (Paris: Seuil, 1989) (the title of the chapter has been changed in the translation in agreement with the author).

Translated from French by Modestas Bakas
Translation checked, foreword and comments by Nijolė Keršytė

Author Biography

Eric Landowski

is a student and associate of Algirdas Julius Greimas, one of the most prominent representatives of the Greimas school of semiotics. From 1973 to 2013, he worked at the Sciences Po – Paris Institute of Political Studies (CEVIPOF) and taught for a long time at both the University of São Paulo and Vilnius University. Landowski mainly specialized in the semiotic analysis of social relations, focusing on discourses and practices. His key books on the subject include La Société réfléchie (1989), Présences de l’autre (1997), Passions sans nom (2004), Les interactions risquées (2005), and Prasmė anapus teksto: sociosemiotinės esė" [Meaning Beyond the Text: Sociosemiotic Essays] (translated by Paulius Jevsejevas; 2015).

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette and Her Children, 1787, oil on canvas, 275 × 215 cm, Palace of Versailles

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Published

18/07/2024

How to Cite

Landowski , E. (2024). The Generation: Between Everyday Myth and Social Science: Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, (113), 454–472. Retrieved from https://aaav.vda.lt/journal/article/view/242

Issue

No. 113 (2024): The Concept of Age and Its Expression in Culture

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The Sources

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