20th century · 1896–1982
Who influenced Roman Jakobson?
Influences and legacy
Structural linguist of the Prague Circle who carried form across poetics and semiotics.
Roman Jakobson was influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure, and went on to influence Louis Hjelmslev, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Algirdas Julien Greimas and Tzvetan Todorov. That is 5 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Roman Jakobson?
Roman Jakobson, a Russian-born linguist, was a pioneer of structural linguistics. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy he worked out new ways to analyse the sound systems of languages, in effect founding modern phonology, and he later applied the same principles to syntax, morphology and meaning. He also wrote major studies of Russian case and verb.
Through his influence on Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, structural analysis spread from linguistics into anthropology, philosophy and literary theory. His theory of distinctive features shaped the early thinking of Noam Chomsky.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Roman Jakobson?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Ferdinand de Saussure 1857–1913
Who did Roman Jakobson influence?
4 thinkers on this map draw directly on Roman Jakobson.
- Louis Hjelmslev 1899–1965
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 1908–2009
- Algirdas Julien Greimas 1917–1992
- Tzvetan Todorov 1939–2017
Two steps away from Roman Jakobson
The second generation
- Through Louis Hjelmslev: Umberto Eco
- Through Tzvetan Todorov: Gérard Genette
Contemporaries of Roman Jakobson
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Roman Jakobson, with no direct line between them.
- Mikhail Bakhtin 1895–1975
- Max Horkheimer 1895–1973
- Herbert Marcuse 1898–1979
- Roman Ingarden 1893–1970
- Alfred Schutz 1899–1959
- Walter Benjamin 1892–1940
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980
- Hans-Georg Gadamer 1900–2002
Roman Jakobson by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 4 — #31 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 1
- Thinkers downstream
- 6
- Wikipedia languages
- 57 — #40 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
Questions about Roman Jakobson
- Who influenced Roman Jakobson?
- Ferdinand de Saussure.
- Who did Roman Jakobson influence?
- Louis Hjelmslev, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Algirdas Julien Greimas and Tzvetan Todorov.
- When did Roman Jakobson live?
- 1896–1982. The map files Roman Jakobson under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Roman Jakobson card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Roman Jakobson in 57 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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