Мифология в романтической науке: Символика Фридриха Крейцера

Труды БГТУ. 2014. № 5. С. 87–90.

Shalaeva A.

Georg Friedrich Creuzer (1771-1858), who was first to announce mythology as a discipline and to lay theoretical grounds to mythology as a discipline, is in the center of the research. In his main work Symbolism and mythology of the ancient peoples, particularly the Greeks (1810-12, 2nd ed. 1819, 3rd ed. 1837) apart from working out theoretical grounds of mythology as a discipline, he also analyzed a great amount of mythological material. The research is dedicated to the specific structure of Creuzer's book, to the peculiarities of argumentation and to the special way in which outer philosophical influences and sources affected Creuzer’s general concept. The turn of the 19th century may be considered one of the turning points in the history of knowledge on myth due to the fact that the knowledge on myth and the myth itself came to be the central point of interest of romantic science, and consequently due to the variety of both scientific and non-scientific methods and claims (proceeding from philosophy, philology, art, poetry, history, theology etc.) aimed at it.

Keywords: символика, аргументация, романтическая наука, дисциплинарность, немецкий романтизм, философия мифологии

Publication based on the results of: «Символика…» Г.Ф. Крейцера и крах мифологии как дисциплины на рубеже XVIII-XIX вв. (2014)