Semiotics of culture and intellectual history

The article attempts to methodologically compare two disciplines - the semiotics of culture, developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970-1980s, and intellectual history, which is rapidly developing in the world today. The comparison parameters are the transdisciplinarity, the breadth of empirical material, a synchronic (non-narrative) approach to history, the connection with the urgent problems of society (using the examples of the academic work of Carlo Ginzburg and Mikhail Iampolsky). Historically, intellectual history is not a direct heir to the semiotics of culture; it developed in parallel and not always in direct interaction with it, but some trends of contemporary intellectual history converge methodologically with structural semiotics of culture.