Valentin Nikolayevich Voloshinov

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Valentin Nikolayevich Voloshinov

Valentin Voloshinov ( Russian Валентин Николаевич Волошинов ., Scientific transliteration Valentin Nikolaevič Vološinov * 18th June 1895 in Saint Petersburg ; †  13. June 1936 in Leningrad ) was a Russian literary critic . Today he is considered to be one of the influential masterminds of Russian literary theory , language theory and semiotics .

Life

Voloshinov took a critical look at Ferdinand de Saussure 's model of communication theory, which he criticized for being an ahistorical perspective. After publication, his works were initially forgotten, and it was only with the appearance of the American translation of his work Marxism and Language Theory, first published in 1929, in 1973 that his work began to be widely received outside of the small circles of Soviet linguistics.

Woloschinow belonged in the 1920s to one (than today Bakhtin Circle designated) Leningrad circle of literary theorists to Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975). Many of the essays of this group that were written at that time, so u. a. von Pavel Medvedev (1891–1938) and Voloshinov, are strongly influenced by the ideas of Bakhtin. Even Marxism and linguistic theory is variously regarded as Bakhtin's work in literary studies. The interpretation of Marx 's writings, which deviated from the mainstream at the time , is regarded as a critique of ideology and serious disputes with bourgeois currents such as the Russian formalism . The group was assigned to opposition circles and Bakhtin was exiled . Nothing is known about the further fate of Voloshinov after his time in Leningrad, only the date of his untimely death on June 13, 1936 has been communicated.

Works

  • Freudism . Leningrad 1928 (American: 1st edition 1973)
  • Marxism and Philosophy of Language [Markszm i filosfija jazyka] .1. Edition. Leningrad 1929, 2nd edition 1930 (American: 1973; German: 1st edition Frankfurt / M. / Berlin / Vienna 1975)

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personal data
SURNAME Voloshinov, Valentin Nikolaevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Волошинов, Валентин Николаевич (Cyrillic); Voloshinov, Valentin (English transcription); Vološinov, Valentin Nikolaevič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1936
Place of death Leningrad