Mythe aryen et référent linguistique indo-européen dans la Russie du
XIXe siècle. (French)
Language: French
Authors: Laruelle, Marlène1
marlenelaruelle@...
Source: Historiographia Linguistica; 2005, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p61-85, 25p
Document Type: Article
Abstract: Like the other European countries, Russia of the 19th
century experienced much of the same scholarly discourse concerning
the Aryan idea. The Russian Aryan myth distinguishes itself from the
German and French versions by the absence of racialism and its
Orthodox anchoring, this way offering the possibility of a certain
`decentralization' in the face of the Western experience of Aryanism.
This difference often permits Slavophile intellectual circles at the
periphery of the classic university life to develop a genealogical
discourse concerning nationhood and the legitimization of the imperial
expansion of Russia in Asia and the Far East. As a result, the Aryan
reference blossomed in the historical and archaeological arguments for
the justification of the supposed national continuity and statehood
between the ancient Scythian world and contemporary Russia. The
proximity between the Slavic and the Indo-Iranian languages, of the
Oriental branch of the Indo-European family, would naturally
constitute, for the Slavophiles, a scientific argument in favour of
the Aryan assertion of Russia?: the competition between the Germanic
peoples and the Slaves for the most ancient antiquity is then
transposed into the notion of language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Author Affiliations: 1Centre d'études du monde russe de l'École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
ISSN: 0302-5160
Accession Number: 17811589
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