Dialectics – a link between Czech structuralism and Marxism? : a few notes on Jan Mukařovský's dialectics Cover Image

Dialektika – spojnice mezi českým strukturalismem a marxismem? : několik poznámek o dialektice u Jana Mukařovského
Dialectics – a link between Czech structuralism and Marxism? : a few notes on Jan Mukařovský's dialectics

Author(s): Ondřej Sládek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Jan Mukařovský; Karel Marx; Friedrich Engels; structuralism; structural poetics; structural aesthetics; Marxism; dialectics

Summary/Abstract: During the 20th century, dialectics was applied in many philosophical and scientific disciplines. The remarkable use of the dialectical method occurred, for example, in Marxism but also in structuralism, which was developed in the 1920s by the Prague Linguistic Circle. The study focuses on the works of the Czech literary scholar and aesthetician Jan Mukařovský (1891–1975). The author provides a detailed description and analysis of both Mukařovský's conception of dialectics and his efforts to find a link between structuralism and Marxism. According to Mukařovský, dialectics is a tool of thought and knowledge, a method to discover and explore the contradictions appearing in reality. The author of the study demonstrates that it was dialectics which Mukařovský considered a link between structuralism and Marxism.

  • Issue Year: 24/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 90-110
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Czech
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