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<p>This article focuses on Juri Lotman’s views of the origins of Tartu-Moscow structuralism. He reconstructed the genesis of the Tartu-Moscow School using the Hegelian model (thesis – antithesis – synthesis). In Lotman’s concepts of the 1960s and 1970s, the role of the “thesis” was always played by the Petrograd Association of Russian Formalists (OPOIaZ). Lotman selected different movements as the “antithesis”. In the 1960s, the productive antithesis to OPOIaZ was, for Lotman, the “semantic paleontology” of Nikolai Marr and his followers (such as Olga Freidenberg). In the 1970s, Lotman assigned this role to the functionalist structuralism of the Prague School (with a special focus on the work of Jan Mukařovský), but he never abandoned his sympathy for the work of Freidenberg.</p>
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This article focuses on Juri Lotman’s views of the origins of Tartu-Moscow structuralism. He reconstructed the genesis of the Tartu-Moscow School using the Hegelian model (thesis – antithesis – synthesis). In Lotman’s concepts of the 1960s and 1970s, the role of the “thesis” was always played by the Petrograd Association of Russian Formalists (OPOIaZ). Lotman selected different movements as the “antithesis”. In the 1960s, the productive antithesis to OPOIaZ was, for Lotman, the “semantic paleontology” of Nikolai Marr and his followers (such as Olga Freidenberg). In the 1970s, Lotman assigned this role to the functionalist structuralism of the Prague School (with a special focus on the work of Jan Mukařovský), but he never abandoned his sympathy for the work of Freidenberg.

Yuri Tynianov, Jan Mukařovský and Nikolai Marr in Juri Lotman’s Concept of History of Humanities

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This article focuses on Juri Lotman’s views of the origins of Tartu-Moscow structuralism. He reconstructed the genesis of the Tartu-Moscow School using the...

Yuri Tynianov, Jan Mukařovský and Nikolai Marr in Juri Lotman’s Concept of History of Humanities

Published Online: Jul 08, 2023

Page range: 66 - 73

Received: Mar 01, 2023

Accepted: Apr 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2023-0005

Keywords
Juri Lotman, formalism, structuralism, Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, history of humanities, Nikolai Marr, Olga Freidenberg, semantic paleontology

© 2023 Mikhail Trunin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Yuri Tynianov, Jan Mukařovský and Nikolai Marr in Juri Lotman’s Concept of History of Humanities

Published Online: Jul 08, 2023

Page range: 66 - 73

Received: Mar 01, 2023

Accepted: Apr 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2023-0005

KeywordsJuri Lotman, formalism, structuralism, Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, history of humanities, Nikolai Marr, Olga Freidenberg, semantic paleontology

© 2023 Mikhail Trunin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Juri Lotman, formalism, structuralism, Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics, history of humanities, Nikolai Marr, Olga Freidenberg, semantic paleontology