Resolving the Paradox of the Enlightenment

Tyulenev, S.

doi:10.17516/1997-1370-2015-8-2-308-328

Resolving the Paradox of the Enlightenment

Tyulenev, S.

Authors

Professor Sergey Tyulenev sergey.tyulenev@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

The focus of this article is on the role of translation in the Westernisation of eighteenth-century Russia. The emphasis is placed on the integration of Russian science into the European global science function system (Luhmann). In the global science system, translation played a part in resolving the paradox of the Enlightenment agenda, which was how to make possible the exchange of knowledge in the scholarly community (mainly in Latin), and at the same time make that knowledge accessible to any other, nonacademic, linguistic community (in Russian). Reports of the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Russian renderings of scientific terminology and non-verbal scientifically relevant phenomena are analysed as examples.

Citation

Tyulenev, S. (2015). Resolving the Paradox of the Enlightenment. Žurnal Sibirskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. Seriâ Gumanitarnye nauki Журнал Сибирского федерального университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки (Online), 8(2), 308-328. https://doi.org/10.17516/1997-1370-2015-8-2-308-328

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jan 20, 2015
Publication Date	Feb 1, 2015
Deposit Date	Nov 4, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Mar 24, 2016
Journal	Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & social sciences
Print ISSN	1997-1370
Electronic ISSN	2313-6014
Publisher	Publishing House of “Siberian Federal University”, Federal Autonomous Educational Establishment for Higher Vocational Education
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	8
Issue	2
Pages	308-328
DOI	https://doi.org/10.17516/1997-1370-2015-8-2-308-328