Jan Mukarovsky - literary theorist, art theorist, aesthetician

Abstract

The article deals with the life of Jan Mukarovsky and his academic career. Mukarovsky came from the Prague Linguistic Circle, however his philosophy of art and his theory of meaning are strongly affected by Husserl''s phenomenology.

After the communist coup in 1948 he radically overhaul his philosophical basis for the Stalinist approach to language and linguistics itself.

Keywords

• Jan Mukarovsky
• Edmund Husserl
• theory of meaning
• phenomenology
• intentional object
• Karel Hynek Macha