Between Methodological Strictness and Moral Appeal: Questions of Language and Cultural Theory in Russia
| Autor: | Boris Gasparov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | History of Humanities. 1:303-326 |
| ISSN: | 2379-3171 2379-3163 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/687921 |
| Popis: | The article surveys the history of aesthetics, literary theory, and philosophy of language in Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries viewed through the lens of a major paradigm underlying modern Russia’s cultural history: a radical opposition between a socially engaged and strictly formal approach to national language and art. A characteristic feature of the Russian cultural landscape is the extremely radical character of either side and sharp confrontations between them, which at times (particularly, in the Soviet era) become a substitute for otherwise impossible ideological and political polemics. In this light, the article examines such events in the history of the Russian humanities as the nineteenth-century utilitarian aesthetics; the Romantic idea of the “national spirit” embodied in forms of the national language; the Formal literary theory and structural linguistics as voices of opposition to the state ideology and cultural policy; and semiotics of culture as an integral part of ... |
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