Title: If Vico Had Read Engels He Would Be Called Nikolai Marr
Abstract:Nikolai Marr is not a meteorite fallen to earth from a perverse and infernal universe. He finds his place in a school of thought which keeps cropping up in different time periods and places: a school ...Nikolai Marr is not a meteorite fallen to earth from a perverse and infernal universe. He finds his place in a school of thought which keeps cropping up in different time periods and places: a school which is in search of origins and “primitivism”, fascinated by the notion of langage without langues, of the undivided sign, attempting to redefine semantics on the basis of etymologies derived from primordial archetypes. This school of thought, which gives the lie to the simplistic notion of a “national tradition” in linguistics, links Marr’s texts to research conducted into the origin of language by philosophers from the seventeenth (Leibniz) and the eighteenth centuries (Vico, Condillac, Herder, Rousseau), as well as to all other logophiles, from Jean-Pierre Brisset to Stéphane Mallarmé, for whom the division of the sign is a source of suffering. Marr’s oeuvre is incompatible with a positivist theory of knowledge; instead, it is a fantastical and fascinating object, a single-sided sign, a Möbius strip.Read More
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-07-27
Language: en
Type: article
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