К созданию и интерпретации "Мудрости древних чехов" Р. Якобсона и полемика в чехословацкой эмиграции во время Второй мировой войны
On the origin and interpretation of R. Jakobson's Moudrost starých Čechů and the Czechoslovak exile polemics during World War II

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the origin and interpretation of the forgotten monograph Moudrost starých Čechů [Wisdom of the Old Czechs], written by Roman Jakobson, the renowned structuralist and member of the Prague Linguistic Circle, in American exile in 1943. Obviously intent on highlighting the importance of Church Slavonic literature for West Slavic nations, Jakobson goes beyond structuralist discourse and through his anti-German attitude contributes to the debate on the sense of Czech history within Slavonic/non-Slavonic Central Europe, i.e. in the geopolitical area between the East and the West. With no less attention does the paper track down the dissenting response Jakobson's work received from the Czechoslovak expatriate community in the USA.

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