Husserl’s phenomenology and its impact on Russian science in 1910–1920

Abstract

The development of phenomenology in Russia is considered. Based on G.Shpet’s work “Phenomenon and meaning” phenomenology in Russia is shown to be initially related to philosophy of language. Such tendency in human sciences of “a twist” towards linguistics became especially pronounced at the end of the 1910s in the context of Moscow Linguistic Circle work and then in the 1920s in the context of the State Academy of the Arts (GAKhN, in Russian) work within which the concept of “internal form” became a general methodological principle. The evolution of this school of thought in Russia is analyzed in particular by the example of the creative works of E.D.Polivanov.