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(2014) Russian formalism, Genève-Lausanne, sdvig press.
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Steiner, P. (2014). The developmental significance of Russian formalism, in Russian formalism, Genève-Lausanne, sdvig press, pp. 205-230.
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41 Readers familiar with recent developments in the philosophy of science might recognize that the Formalist view of the “spirit of scientific inquiry” anticipates to some degree Paul Feyerabend’s “anarchistic theory of knowledge” (Feyerabend 1975). It is noteworthy that the Formalists in their polemics with Marxism occasionally invoked the “anarchy of life,” a notion that is alwaysincomprehensible to the adherents of the rigid and doctrinaire Marxist Weltanschauung. Explicitly comparing the struggle between the traditional philologists and the Formalists to that between the Marxists and anarchists, Èjchenbaum exclaimed, “Life is not built according to Marx—all the better” (Èjchenbaum 1922a, p. 41).
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