Koncept věci v ruském formalismu a Pražské škole

• Authors: Zdeněk Mathauser

Title variants

EN

The concept of the thing in Russian Formalism and the Prague School

DE

Das Konzept des Dinges im russischen Formalismus und in der Prager Schule

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The cult of the thing forced itself into the spotlight in the avant-garde through all possible routes, including the denotation of the text genre as a thing. In particular, this was how the Russian avant-garde and Russian literary criticism proclaimed their renunciation of the high, ecstatic concept of art. But the roots of the prolific methods of Russian formalism and Czech structuralism were simultaneously being found in Husserl’s phenomenology. In the Czech modernist tradition, the general aesthetic concept of the work-thing as one of the most important vantage points of a work of art was more effective than the thing-genre, and it has remained meaningful even up to now. In Jan Mukařovský’s aesthetics, the concept of the work-thing underwent a radical transformation, whose results are an extraordinary contribution to the study of aesthetics. Parallel to the change in the conception of the work-thing, the strengthening of the accent on the thing-related nature of the poetic word also occurred in Mukařovský’s works on poetic expression, which again created a common denominator with his writings on the work-thing. Some of Mukařovský’s thoughts on the “work-thing – work-sign – aesthetic object – artifact” are part of his envisioning of numerous new ideas in aesthetics internationally.

Keywords

CS

věc; ruský formalismus; Pražská škola; estetika; Jan Mukařovský

EN

thing; Russian formalism; Prague School; aesthetics; Jan Mukařovský

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 25-33
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zdeněk Mathauser

• Slovo a slovesnost, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic