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Constructivist, Cognitivist and System-Theoretical Strategies of Research in Literary Science |
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Roman Mikuláš |
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The paper focuses on the issue of the entanglement of constructivist literary scholarship in constructivist, cognitivist and system-theoretical discourse. Transdisciplinarity has proved to be very productive in a whole range of attempts to renovate literary science. The theorem of constructiveness of observation and of knowledge gave a new direction to literary science. It is even referred to as a change of paradigm, or a transition from a pre-paradigmatic to a paradigmatic science. In the radical constructivist discourse, which is characterized by interdisciplinarity, the concepts of empiricity, cognition and communication has been redefined. Nevertheless, the meta-theoretical, trans- or interdisciplinary, epistemic, philosophical and methodological foundations of constructivist literary scholarship are confronted with the problem of practicability of such claims and the question of their reconciliation. |
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Keywords: Radical Constructivism. System Theory. Cognitive Theory. Empirical Literary Scholarship. Auto-poietic System. Operationalism. Constructive Functionalism. Siegfried J. Schmidt. Niklas Luhmann. |
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