General introduction to the project “Open semiotics”

Abstract

This article is a Russian translation of the General introduction to the four-volume project “Open Semiotics”, published in 2023 under the editorship of Amir Biglari in the L'Harmattan publishing house. The original imprint – Biglari, A. (2023), General intoduction, A. Biglari (ed.), Open Semiotics: Epistemological and Conceptual Foundations, L'Harmattan, Paris, vol. 1, pp. 33–43.“Open Semiotics” comprises four volumes: (1) Epistemological and Conceptual Foundations, (2) Culture and Society, (3) Texts, Images, Arts, (4) Life and its Extensions. The project includes 141 chapters authored by 178 scholars from 58 countries spanning all continents, which represent a broad array of trends and approaches as well as numerous and diverse disciplinary crossings.Given that signs and meanings pervade the world in its different aspects, semiotics is naturally open to interactions with other fields, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and pure sciences. Open Semiotics aims to explore and expand these interactions, and to facilitate new avenues for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, providing insights into a redeployment of disciplinary fields.