In memoriam Alexander Moiseevich Piatigorsky
In memoriam Alexander Moiseevich Piatigorsky

Summary/Abstract: Alexander Moiseevich Piatigorsky (30 January 1929 — 25 October 2009) was, as we can read from numerous sources, an internationally renowned Russian and English philosopher, buddhologist, indologist, translator and writer. In addition, he was a cultural theorist, philologist, semiotician, and one of the founders of the Tartu–Moscow school. On the one hand, one can agree with every single one (or all) of these characterizations. Yet on the other hand, with none (beginning with the words “Russian and English”), for every characterization inevitably delimits and suspends, but A. Piatigorsky was in principle indefinable, paradoxical, eccentric, and non-identical to himself, and not just over the course of his “public” life (papers, books, lectures, presentations, conversations, interviews), but often during a single paper or interview.

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