Resolving the Paradox of the Enlightenment

Tyulenev, S.

Abstract

The focus of this article is on the role of translation in the Westernisation of eighteenth-century Russia. The emphasis is placed on the integration of Russian science into the European global science function system (Luhmann). In the global science system, translation played a part in resolving the paradox of the Enlightenment agenda, which was how to make possible the exchange of knowledge in the scholarly community (mainly in Latin), and at the same time make that knowledge accessible to any other, nonacademic, linguistic community (in Russian). Reports of the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Russian renderings of scientific terminology and non-verbal scientifically relevant phenomena are analysed as examples.

Citation

Tyulenev, S. (2015). Resolving the Paradox of the Enlightenment. Žurnal Sibirskogo federalʹnogo universiteta. Seriâ Gumanitarnye nauki Журнал Сибирского федерального университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки (Online), 8(2), 308-328. https://doi.org/10.17516/1997-1370-2015-8-2-308-328

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 20, 2015
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Nov 4, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 24, 2016
• Journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & social sciences
• Print ISSN: 1997-1370
• Electronic ISSN: 2313-6014
• Publisher: Publishing House of “Siberian Federal University”, Federal Autonomous Educational Establishment for Higher Vocational Education
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 308-328
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.17516/1997-1370-2015-8-2-308-328
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1418813