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The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of early Soviet cultural politics and an early anticolonial theorist. This volume offers a representative selection of Marr's writing translated here for the first time into English.
List of contents
Introduction: Resituating Nikolai Marr
1. Japhetic Languages
2. On the question of the tasks of Armenian Studies
3. The Japhetites
4. Main Achievements of the Japhetic Theory
5. On the Origin of Languages
6. Nikolai Marr's Critique of Indo-European Philology and the Subaltern Critique of Brahman Nationalism in Colonial India
7. If Vico Had Read Engels He Would Be Called Nikolai Marr
8. Japhetic Grammatology: Marr, Derrida and Archi-writing
9. Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin's Article "Experience Based on a Study of Demand among Kolkhoz Workers"
10. "Experience Based on a Study of Demand among Kolkhoz Workers"
About the author
Matthew Carson Allen holds a PhD in French Studies from Warwick University. His dissertation examined the challenges to universalism offered by thinkers from the global periphery including Nikolai Marr and the Haitian intellectual Anténor Firmin. He currently teaches French at secondary school level.
Robert J.C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. His writings address literature, postcolonial theory, cultural and political history, and psychoanalysis; they are animated by an interest in the forms of thought adopted by people who are subject to marginalization.
Summary
The archaeologist, philologist, and Linguistics theoretician Nikolai Marr has attracted increasing scholarly attention as a pivotal figure of early Soviet cultural politics and an early anticolonial theorist. This volume offers a representative selection of Marr’s writing translated here for the first time into English.
