Gustav Shpet's contribution to philosophy and cultural theory / edited by Galin Tihanov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tihanov, Galin.

Series:

Comparative cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shpet, Gustav, 1879-1937.

Shpet, Gustav.

Physical Description:

vii, 322 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2009]

Summary:

The collected volume Gustav Shpet's Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory-edited by Galin Tihanov-seeks to expose Shpet's work to a Western audience, to describe and evaluate critically Shpet's contributions to philosophy and the theory of culture and to provide a platform for further discussion. The volume provides a rounded view of Shpet's work with biographical, cultural-historical, and analytical discussion. The inclusion of an excellent and thorough bibliography as well as translated excerpts add considerably to its value. The scholars assembled for the volume are a distinguished and knowledgeable group, but a group interestingly varied in approach and opinions. Without exception the contributions are extremely well-versed not only in Shpet scholarship, but in the study of related figures including Husserl, the Russian Formalists, Russian Orthodox philosophy, and in the period as a whole. There are at least three fields in which the volume is an important contribution: as a contribution to Russian intellectual and cultural history it is unprecedented and unique and it will bring an important, but neglected figure into play; as a contribution to debates in semiotics and the philosophy of language-and related discussion in literary theory-it represents a unique body of work; and finally, the volume presents outstanding work on phenomenological issues and thus it is relevant to philosophers with an interest in phenomenology and Husserl in particular.

Galin Tihanov teaches comparative literature and intellectual history at the University of Manchaster where he is co-director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures. His publications include The Master and the Slave: Lukc̀s, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time (2000), two books on Bulgarian literature (1994 and 1998), co-edited volumes on Bakhtin and the Bakhtin Circle (2000 and 2004) and on Robert Musil (2007), and the guest-edited issue Russian Avant-Garde Photography and Visual Culture of the journal, History of Photography (2000), as well as numerous articles on German, Russian, and East European intellectual and cultural history, and on various issues in comparatives literature.

Contents:

Part 1 Mapping out the Field

Tropos Logikos: Gustav Shpet's Philosophy of History / Peter Steiner 13

The Hermeneutic Triangle: Gustav Shpet's Aesthetics in Context / Robert Bird 28

Shpet's Influence on Psychology / Vladimir Zinchenko, James V. Wertsch 45

Gustav Shpet's Literary and Theater Affiliations / Galin Tihanov 56

Part 2 The Russian Context

The Fate of Philosophy in Russia: Shpet's Studies in the History of Russian Thought / James P. Scanlan 83

Gustav Shpet and Phenomenology in an Orthodox Key / Steven Cassedy 98

Vladimir Solov'ev and the Legacy of Russian Religious Thought in the Works of Gustav Shpet / Maryse Dennes 115

Part 3 Phenomenology

Shpet's Departure from Husserl / Thomas Nemeth 125

Shpet as Translator of Hegel's Phd̃nomenologie des Geistes / George L. Kline 140

The Objective Sense of History: Shpet's Synthesis of Hegel, Cieszkowski, Herzen, and Husserl / Ulrich Schmid 157

Shpet's Aesthetic Fragments and Sartre's Theory of Literature / Alexander Haardt 169

Part 4 Semiotics and Philosophy of Language

Sign and/vs. Essence in Shpet / Thomas Seifrid 181

Problems of Sense, Significance, and Validity in the Work of Shpet and the Bakhtin Circle / Craig Brandist 192

Semiotics in Voloshinov and Shpet / Dušan Radunović 207

Part 5 Translations

Introduction to Excerpts from Shpet's "Germenevtika i ee problemy" ( "Hermeneutics and Its Problems" ) / George L. Kline 221

Excerpts from "Germenevtika i ee problemy" ( "Hermeneutics and Its Problems" ) / Gustav Shpet 223

Introduction to Shpet's "O granitsakh nauchnogo literaturovedeniia" ( "On the Limits of Scientific Literary Scholarship" ) / Dušan Radunović, Galin Tihanov 246

O granitsakh nauchnogo literaturovedeniia (On the Limits of Scientific Literary Scholarship) / Gustav Shpet 248

Part 6 Bibliographies

Bibliography of Gustav Shpet's Published Works (1901-2009) / Galin Tihanov 253

Literature on Gustav Shpet(1915-2009) / Galin Tihanov 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781557535252

1557535256

OCLC:

312444360