Истоки академических поисков: значение мифологии и символики

Труды БГТУ. 2015. № 5. С. 126–130.

Shalaeva A.

During the rise of Romanticism in Germany it was possible to work out and comprehend different scientific programs based on ancient symbolic material, one of which was ancient mythology. These programs appeared in different academic and university groups. The borders of these approaches lay not only in the educational and curricular specification but in the logic of knowledge differentiation mostly. The significance of the formation of mythology as a discipline may be found in the academic search for nationhood, through language and history as ancient mythologies. Romantic scientists analysed this process not from a teleological perspective but historically, in terms of its appearance at the first stages of its development, when many potential scripts were possible. Mythology appeared at the crossing of these claims. The research demonstrates that at the beginning of the 19th century mythology was considered as a subject of research and a discipline in its own right. The study observes its origins, and an understanding of scientific work which enabled scholars to consider mythology as a discipline. That means that mythology became the academic study of the body of myths and symbols.

Keywords: символика, Крейцер, symbolism, немецкий романтизм, German romanticism, Georg Friedrich Creuzer, mythology as a discipline, мифология как дисциплина, mythological thinking, мифологическое мышление

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