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THE EVOLUTION OF THE RUSSIAN SELF-AWARENESS IS IN PROGRESS

Author(s): Vladimir N. Toporov
Contributor(s): Natalia Rusiecka (Translator), Jerzy Bartmiński (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Russian self-awareness; understanding of the Self; Russian national soul; national traditions; meeting the Other

Summary/Abstract: “It is particularly important to understand ourselves, with all our virtues and vices, to confront the picture thus emerging — that of the Russian history, culture and the national «soul» — with results of parallel inquiries conducted within other national traditions of comparable import. One can meet others with good results only when one’s own idiosyncratic features and abilities have become known. Such meeting just now should be understood as an imperative of the present times.”

  • Issue Year: 12/2000
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 11-24
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish