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On the sources of cosmopolitanism as an idea: The Russian and the European views
https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-2-44-69
Abstract
The article is concerned with the difference in understanding of the term ‘cosmopolitan’ inRussiaandFrance. Often considered a predominantly negative phenomenon inRussia, cosmopolitanism fi st provoked a discussion at the time when the emphasis shifted from ideology to understanding of the historical-literary process. Since the late 18th c., the idea of the possible existence of a literary work within the global literary environment (the concept of world literature) was adjusted by the ‘golden chain’ metaphor, which enabled implementation of the ‘universality’ concept as a unity principally separate from the French idée universelle. During this evolutionary period emerged a distinctive subject of literary history: fi st, ‘humanity’ as a general term (initially identifi with universalism or cosmopolitanism), and then ‘a nation’. But it is the discovery of the national that the author believes is connected with particularism and provincialism, the latter summoning the memory of the noble intention of universalism and cosmopolitanism. An interim summary of the process was produced by Joseph Texte, a professor of comparative literature inLyon, at the end of the 19th c.
About the Author
E. E. Dmitrieva
Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (The Pushkin House); A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ekaterina E. Dmitrieva – Doctor of Philology
4 Makarov Emb., St. Petersburg, 199034
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Dmitrieva E.E. On the sources of cosmopolitanism as an idea: The Russian and the European views. Voprosy literatury. 2020;(2):44-69. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-2-44-69
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