Frame approach to analysing the semantisation of the biblical quasi-anthroponym prodigal son in the language of Russian poetry
This article describes ways to semanticise the biblical quasi-anthroponym ‘prodigal son’ in a poetic text, using the frame approach as a means of cognitive modelling and description. This approach helps to identify and characterise meaning construction mechanisms in a precedent onomastic ...
On the Role of Gesinnung in Kant’s Ethics and Philosophy of Religion. Part I
... history of the concept of Gesinnung which influenced Kant’s philosophy. Among the sources that had a particularly strong impact both on the meaning of Kant’s concept of Gesinnung and on its perception the most important are various translations of the Bible — both into German and into Russian — as well as Latin works by A. G. Baumgarten and German works by C. A. Crusius and M. Mendelssohn. I have also included an overview of English versions of translations of Kant’s term Gesinnung (disposition,...
The alien and (or) one’s own: modern hidden calques (based on the collocation Kak po Mne [as for me])
This article addresses the problem of identifying hidden borrowings in the Russian language of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The authors pay particular attention to expressions that convey meanings whose semiotic 'form' utilises linguistic elements pre-existing in ...
Evolution of the special question in English (based on examples from the Gospel of John)
... J. Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Gospels in Parallel Columns with the Versions of Wycliff and Tyndale. L., 1888. URL:
https://archive.org/stream/gothicandang
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Bruce F. F. History of the Bible in English. 3rd ed. Cambridge, 1979.
Macleod M. The Perfect in Old English and Old Saxon: The Synchronic and Diachronic Correspondence of Form and Meaning : PhD Dissertation. Cambridge, 2012.
Online Etymology Dictionary. URL:
https://www.etymonline....
Imperative modality as a mechanism of creating universal human values (based on Russian and English translations of biblical idioms)
This article considers different types of imperative modality and the ways their meanings are manifested in the semantic structure of biblical idioms. It is assumed that, in biblical idioms, the formation of universal human values is based on the imperative modality represented by suggestives, requestives, and prescriptives....
Intergenerational transmission of poverty: a challenge for Poland
This article argues that urban poverty pockets emerged in Poland in the course of the system transformation towards capitalism. The main poverty drivers were the three overlapping processes: de-industrialization, ‘dewelfarization’ and de-institutionalization of the family accompanied by the devolution of social care ...
The biblical anthoponyms Jospeh the All-comely and Mary Magdelene in Marina Tsvetaeva’s poetic interpretation
This paper studies the informative and associative aspects of the precedent biblical anthroponyms Jospeh the All-comely and Mary Magdalene as units of Marina Tsvetaeva’s personosphere. The author characterizes the text formation and pragmatic functions of the mentioned ...
Biblical motifs in B. Pasternak’s cycle Isn’t it Time for Birds to Sing as a structure forming principle
This article described the structure forming function of biblical motifs in the plot relating to the spiritual struggle between the good and the evil for the soul of the persona. The author identifies the role of intertextual connection in the formation of the image of poetic ...
Dispute about Holbein as a dispute about faith: discussion around Fedor Dostoevsky’s novel ‘The Idiot’
The article is devoted to the controversy around the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger "Christ in the tomb" and the novel "The Idiot" by Fedor Dostoevsky, where this picture is the central ekphrasis. The aim of the study was to ...
The Russians in Kant-Studien. Part 2 (1954—2010)
This article is the second part of the research concerning the publications of Russian scholars in Kant-Studien, the leading periodical dedicated to Kantian studies and the most important print of International Kant Society. The article describes the history of publications ...
The Name of Prophet Abraham in the Old Russian Literature of XI—XIII centuries
... literatura i traditsii khristianskogo ponimaniya slova [Old Believer literature and traditions of Christian understanding of the word]. Tomsk (in Russ.).
Bibliya, sirech' knigi svyashchennogo pisaniya Vetkhogo i Novogo zaveta s parallel'nymi mestami [The Bible, the books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments with parallel places], 1900. St. Petersburg (in Russ.).
Vodolazkin, E. G., 2008. Vsemirnaya istoriya v literature Drevnei Rusi (na materiale khronograficheskogo i paleinogo povestvovaniya ...
The Russians in Kant-Studien. Part II (1954—2012)
This article is the second part of the research concerning the publications of Russian scholars in Kant-Studien, the leading periodical dedicated to Kant studies and the most important print of the International Kant Society. The article describes the history of publications ...
Paul Henry Gerber — physician, professor and poet from Königsberg
The article explores the biography of Professor Paul Henry Gerber (1863-1919), a bright representative of the intellectual elite of Königsberg at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. A native of the capital of the German province East Prussia, he was ...
Kants Sendschreibens zum Tod des Studenten Johann Friedrich von Funk (1760). Zur literaturhistorischen Einordnung — Teil 1: Gottsched und die Königliche Deutsche Gesellschaft zu Königsberg
Kant’s mourning letter or necrology for his student Johann Friedrich von Funk (1760) has hardly been received. This study attempts to change this by explaining the contexts of the short missive. In the first part this concerns in particular the influence that Gottsched exerted on the style of such printed speeches or necrologies. Kant’s references therefore to the ‘Royal German Society’ in Königsberg ...
Specific ways to interpret the biblical expressions paradise and hell in the headings of aphoristic definitions
This paper describes ways to interpret the lexemes paradise and hell in definition-like aphorisms resembling a dictionary entry. These definitions use both traditional universal ways to interprets words and specific ones, in particular, association, antonymy-based distinction, repetition-based ...
Representation of religious and confessional values of the Reformation and Protestantism in the phraseological heritage of Martin Luther
The article is devoted to the study of German phraseological units and paroemias, which go back to Martin Luther and reflect the era of the Reformation and its confessional values. The analysis showed that the unique confessional experience left a significant ...
Axiological analysis of the novel "The Prospector" by Jean- Marie Gustave Le Clézio
The article contains an axiological analysis of the novel "The Prospector" by the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The author of the novel employs a variety of artistic means to express the characters’ and his own value systems ...
The project method in multicultural education: Polish practices
This article analyses the results of an international project aimed at fa-miliarizing Kaliningrad teachers with the Polish multicultural education practices. The author stresses the potential of a number of methods and tech-niques, including the project method. The article ...
The stylistic aspect of Russian and English biblical idioms
This article deals with the balance and misbalance of the English and Russian biblical idioms as regards their stylistic colouring. The idea is put forward that the misbalance can be accounted for by the different priorities of the Western and Eastern cultural traditions.
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“Ancient history” course as basis for acquisition of basic cultural, historic, moral and spiritual traditions of one’s country
... potential of the “Ancient History” academic course in getting acquainted with national history and culture that originated in biblical tradition. The author justifies the necessity of studying biblical history, using the results of harmonization of the Bible and contemporary scientific research.The Bible is considered as an important historical source.
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доктрина образования в Российской Федерации. Введение. Основные ...
Konigsberg Cyrillic editions of the calendars of the 1720s in the collection of the Russian State Library
The article focuses on the publications of the Konigsberg Cyrillic printing house of the first third of the XVIII century. Its founder and publisher Vasily Korven-Kvasovsky, professor of mathematics at the University of Prague, became the author of ...
Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant on the Existence of God
The positions of Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant on the possibility of proving the existence of God require some examination. Wolff’s critique of the physical-theological proof and his proposed ways of improving it are here analysed. God is central ...
The Embodied Practical Ideal: Kant’s Ethicotheology and Godmanhood
The metaphysical layer of what can be called philosophical Christology in Kant’s treatise on religion reflects his idea of the embodiment of the archetype of moral perfection. Kant raises the problem of the ontology of the ideal in the shape of the ...
Was heißt Fortschritt im Wissen? Gnoseotopische Überlegungen zur Aufklärung und ihren Folgen
This article focuses on the question of what “progress in knowledge” (Fortschritt im Wissen) since the Enlightenment could mean. The answer is rooted in a shift in perspective in our understanding of the Enlightenment, and in an awareness of the gnoseotope at the center ...
Indirect translation: Main trends in practice and research
This article concerns indirect translation (ITr), understood broadly as translation of translation, and has the aim of facilitating systematic research on this long-standing, widespread yet underexplored phenomenon. The article thus provides an overview of some of the main patterns in ITr practice and research and explores suggestions for related future studies....
Kants Jesus
This article considers the correlation between the historical Christianity and the pure religion of reason, the figure of the biblical Christ of Nazareth and Kant's interpretation of his personality. The author focuses on the question, whether the Biblical Christ, as a real ...
Kant’s cryptic notes (Afterword to publication)
.... Über das Moment der Geschwindigkeit im Anfangsaugenblick des Falls //Kant’s Gesammelte Schriften. Bd 14. Abt. 3 : Handschriftliche Nachlass. Bd 1. Berlin ; Leipzig, 1925. S. 495—496.
24. Kiesewetter Johann Gottfried Karl Christian // Kant in the classroom. URL:
http://www.manchester.edu/kant/bio/FullBio/KiesewetterJGKC.html
(дата обращения: 12.07.2012).
25. Kirchman Julius von. Vorwort des Herausgebers // Kant I. Sämtliche Werke. Bd 8 : Vermischte Schriften und Briefwechsel ...
The typological features of the anthroponymicon across different genres of Old Russian literary texts
This article examines Old Russian literary texts of the ancient period from the perspective of the origin and development of the Slavic given names stemming from both Old Russian roots and loanwords. The author analyses two- and three-part male and female given names and examines their phonetic adaptation ...
Kant, Königsberg, and the Albertina. Excerpts from the letters of a Polish student
By the end of the 19th century, after three partitions of Rzeczpospolita by the neighbouring powers, about half of its territory became part of the Kingdom of Prussia. These geopolitical changes had significant social implications for the Polish population....
Kantian ethos in J. Rawls’s political philosophy
This article examines the relation between J. Rawls’s philosophical and political conceptions and I. Kant’s ideas and the intellectual and political tradition of the Enlightenment in general. The author defends Rawls’s approach to Kant’s works interpreting it as “discipleship”,...
From Marburg to Odessa: A contribution to a scientific bio-graphy of S. L. Rubinstein
This article reconstructs certain episodes of the early intellectual biography (1889—1960) of S. L. Rubinstein — a Russian Neo-Kantian, philosopher, and psychologist — and presents the fol-lowing archive documents: the letter of Martha Cohen (1918), the widow of the German neo-Kantian Hermann ...
A Königsberg society of friends without Kant
The legends about dinner parties of Immanuel Kant’s friends have been known since the times of his first biographers and other contemporaries. However, there were other communities of friends in Königsberg. Gathering friends at a dining table for the ...
From the fall of man to the image of the Antichrist : Biblical allusions in W. Gombrowicz’s novel Pornografia
This article analyses W. Gombrowicz’s novel Pornografia as a parodic interpretation of Nietzsche’s overman philosophy. The myth of the fall of man from the Book of Genesis and the biblical and eschatological myth of Antichrist are considered as the interpretive key to the novel.
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Establishing the ‘Dialogue of Cultures’ at a Russian Lesson in a Latvian School
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2. Берлянд Е. И. Школа диалога культур. URL: http://www.bibler.ru/shdkom_be_shdk.html (дата обращения: 15.08.2012).
3. Курганов С. Капризная индивидуальность понятия. URL: http://www.bibler.ru/shdkom_ku_kap.html (дата обращения: 15.08.2012).
4. Юшков А. Н. Ода своему заповеднику // Первое сентября. 1997. № 60.
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Functional specificity of explanation in expository texts: a pragmatic model and elaboration principles
The article provides a functional interpretation of explanation. It is based on the principles of Linguistic Pragmatics and Functional Linguistics. Explanation is analysed from two perspectives: as a communicative act and as a two-part discursive structure....
Die Bibel als moralisches Bilderbuch? Kants ‚doktrinale Hermeneutik‘ und ihr Nutzen für die moralische Kultur des Menschen
... „Religionsschrift“? Kant über die Menschen und ihre moralische Kultur durch Religion. In: B. Himmelmann & C. Serck-Hanssen, Hg. 2022. The Court of Reason. Akten des XIII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. 3. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, S. 1985-1995.
Klingner,... ... heute. Berlin & Münster: Lit, S. 55-63.
Kant, philosophy of religion, church faith, rational faith, hypotyposis, symbol, Bible
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Kants Sendschreiben zum Tod des Studenten Johann Friedrich von Funk (1760). Zur literaturhistorischen Einordnung – Teil 2: Antike Vorbilder der Seelenleitung
In this second installment (for the first, see Kantian Journal, 2024, vol. 43, no. 2), Kant’s references to ancient consolation writings are elaborated. The general aim is to make Kant’s proximity to the Roman Stoa, and his borrowings from it, more apparent. A comparison with his ...
Hieroglyphic sign weakening mechanisms
This article is the study of the Chinese characters through the semiotic weakening law. The hieroglyphic sign shapes the Chinese linguistic and cultural domain following the unique algorithm to code information. However, the linear principle of the Indo-European semiotics ...
Current practices in French poetic discourse: Christian Prigent, Michèle Finck and Anne-James Chaton
At the core of the contemporary literary process is the search for an effective extratextual communicative situation, which is especially relevant for books of poetry, whether in paper or electronic form.
This article examines current practices of delivering ...
‘Hallberd of Balderdash’ or an attempt at decoding Alexei Chicherin’s construemes (dedicated to the 100th anniversary of their publication)
This paper is the first attempt to interpret the visual 'construemes' by the constructivist poet Alexei N. Chicherin, published in the anthology Mena vsekh (Moscow, 1924). 'Construemes' can be considered the most enigmatic artefacts of the Russian avant-garde. ...
Functioning of the frame environment in various conceptual knowledge domains in the English language
This article presents the frame environment, exploring its conceptual structure by analysing how linguistic units function within immediate linguistic contexts across various conceptual knowledge domains. It is proposed to define and distinguish between the theoretical concepts ...
Image of Christ in Boris Poplavsky’s book of verses “Snowy hour”
The image of Christ is analyzed in Boris Poplavsky’s book of verses “Snowy hour”. Biblical allusions, lyrical plot of poems, composition and an image of lyrical subject are considered. Researched levels of literary text are studied with connection ...
Allusions in poetic work of Mikhail Matusowsky: philological and cultural-historical aspects
Allusion as a technique of fiction has been studied by various scientific disciplines for the past few decades. This “translator” of cultural, historical and literary information is a significant element that serves to reveal the author’s intention. Allusive inclusions from the works of M. Matusovsky are divided into groups depending ...
The unexpected someone in Nobel history
The main intention of the article is to prove that the unique style of Handke’s creative individuality reflects his special life-saving SOMEONE, who resists in his negative dialectic the dictatorship of another pernicious SOMEONE who sets the false ...