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Exile, Migration, and the
Limits of Theory
G ALIN T IHANOV FBA
GEORGE STEINER PROFESSOR OF
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Two Meanings of Theory:
‘Theory’ versus ‘theory’
* ‘Theory’ ≈ Continental philosophy
* ‘theory’ in its intransitive meaning (theory of)
‘Poetics and Hermeneutics’ (1963)
Hans Robert Jauss
Jacob Taubes
(1921-1997)
(1923-1987)
Wolfgang Iser
Hans Blumenberg
(1926-2007)
(1920-1996)
Georg Lukács
(1885-1971)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(1770-1831)
Eurasianism: Founding Fathers
1. Nikolay Trubetzkoy (1890–1938)
2. Pyotr Savitsky(1895-1968)
3. Pyotr Suvchinsky (1892-1985)
4. George Florovsky (1893-1979)
Europe and Mankind
(1920; Европа и человечество)
Nikolay Trubetzkoy (1890–1938)
Theory versus Poetics
Differently evolving cultural zones
Plato, Republic
ConfuThe Confucius, The Analects
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