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This is the record of a talk given by Siegfried J. Schmidt at the Institute of Czech Literature, Prague, to mark the launch of his Přesahování literatury, Czech translations by Zuzana Adamová of his ‘Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft - ein Entwurf und die Folgen’, (1999), ‘Medienkulturwissenschaft’ (1996), with an Afterword by Michael Wörgerbauer. The author presents his view of the changes in German literary studies since the end of the Second World War, and explains his own role in the events that resulted in alternative approaches to researching literature, which defined themselves in opposition to the traditional approaches. The author discusses his ‘Empiric Theory of Literature’, which shifted the focus of research in literary studies from the text to the system of literature (comprising the social system of literature and the semiotic system of literature). The ETL requires that literary studies be based on explicit, absolutely empirical theories. In another part of the paper, the author elucidates the development of empirical literary studies and focuses on the consequences of the media turnaround, which led to media cultural studies and their concern with media epistemology, the history of media, the history of media culture, and research on transculturality and interculturality.
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General systems theory has offered various options about how to conceptualise systems. Opposing Luhmann’s narrow conception of system, the author proposes to combine systems- and actor theoretical approaches in order to model social systems (including literature) as nonlinear, interrelated complexes of systems where causal structures depend – among other things – upon the decision of goal-oriented subsystems, namely actors whose sociality is introduced into the system via culture. The second part of this chapter is devoted to some consequences arriving from the observer problem; e.g. the mutual construction of system and environment, the relation observer: meaning vis a vis the operational closure of cognitive systems, and a constructivist reading of the concept of the ‘empirical’.
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