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The Emergence of Modern Scientific Communities in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia: The Case of the Moscow Linguistic Circle

Radunović, Dušan

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This article assesses the landscape of Russian studies of art and language in the period 1915-1929 in the light of the loosening of the system of social cohesion in Imperial years and in the context of the rise of ‘secular modernity’. The most relevant manifestations of these processes in the field of human sciences are the cognitive transformation of knowledge towards a non-semantic model of art and language and the definitive inauguration of the institutional mode of knowledge production. In order to elucidate the joint working of these two phenomena the paper focuses on the foremost scientific institution at the time, the Moscow Linguistic Circle, which emerges as the chief case study both for the scientific ideas it produced and for the mode of scientific research it espoused. The paper utilises Frickel and Gross’s general theory of scientific and intellectual movements and N. C. Mullins’s group model of scientific development to trace and explain the rise and fall of the Circle’s approach to art and language and finally evaluates the decline of the non-semantic study of art and language as an epistemological reversal indicating the failure of the Soviet 1920s to fulfil its modernising mission.

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Radunović, D. (2017). The Emergence of Modern Scientific Communities in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia: The Case of the Moscow Linguistic Circle. Revue des études slaves (En ligne), 88(1-2), 137-150

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 1, 2016
Online Publication Date Sep 1, 2017
Publication Date Sep 1, 2017
Deposit Date Jun 14, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Revue des études slaves.
Print ISSN 0080-2557
Electronic ISSN 2117-718X
Publisher Institut d'études slaves
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 88
Issue 1-2
Pages 137-150
Publisher URL http://institut-etudes-slaves.fr/products-page/domaine-culturel/1917-en-russie-la-philologie-a-lepreuve-de-la-revolution/

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