Nataliya S. Avtonomova

Born on June 26th, 1945 in Ryazan'                                                                      

orcid.org/0000-0003-1234-919X  

Researcher ID: C-4463-2017 

Scopus Author ID: 56803776100 

 Science Index Profile

Education

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Philology Department (graduated in 1969), post-graduate studies (finished in 1972)

Degrees

1973 - Ph.D. in Philosophy, thesis subject: "Philosophical problems of the sctructural analysis in humanities (critircal analysis of french structuralism theories)", IPh RAS;

(contains special analysis of Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Bart, Derrida conceptions)

1988 - D. Sc. in Philosophy. Thesis subject: "Rationality as theoretical and cognition problem", IPh RAS

Main Research Interests

theory of knowledge (epistemology), philosophy and methodology of social sciences and humanities

Professional Appointments

• Main Research Scientist of the Department of the Theory of Knowledge;
• Leading research scientist of the Institute of Higher Humanitarian Research at Russian State University for Humanities;

• Expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

• Member of the editorial boards of a number of Russian and foreign philosophical journals, including: "Philosophical Sciences" (Moscow), " Vestnik RUDN. PHILOSOPHY series (Moscow); Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger (Paris); "Acta structuralica. An international, peer-reviewed, open access interdisciplinary journal", etc.; 
• Assosiated member of the scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe at the Higher School for Social (EHESS, CERCEC, Paris).

Teaching Experience

• Lection courses “Philosophy and Philology”, “Philosophy of Postmodernism” (RSUH, PFUR, Moscow);
• Seminars at the Collège international de philosophie (2001-2004);
• Teaching courses at the universities Paris-VII (Humanitarian Clinical Sciences), Paris VIII (Philosophy), Paris-10 (Nanterre) (Philosophy); Lausanne (Slavistics, Epistemology), Besançon (Psychology, Epistemology), Orleans (Linguistics, Epistemology), Paris-III „New Sorbonne“ (Linguistics, Epistemology).

“Strategies of Humanitarian Cognition: Bakhtin and Lotman” (Grant RFH 05-03-03362а 2005-2007).

Over 300 publications, among them:

Monographs:

• Cognition and translation. Experiments in the philosophy of language. M.; SPb.: Center for the humanitarian initiatives, 2016. (series “Humanitas”). 736 Pp.

• Open structure: Jacobson – Bakhtin – Lotman – Gasparov. M.; SPb.: Center for the humanitarian initiatives, 2014.

• The Philosophical Language of Jacques Derrida. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2011.

• Open Structure: Jakobson – Bakhtin – Lotman – Gasparov. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2009.

• Cognition and Translation. Experiences in the Philosophy of Language. Moscow, ROSSPEN, 2008.

• Reason. Mind. Rationality. Moscow, Nauka, 1988.

• Philosophical Problems of Structural Analysis in Humanities (A Critical Analysis of French Structuralist Concepts). Moscow, Nauka, 1977.

 Selected Articles:

• The categorical imperative of Elena Shumilova // Connecting link. Collection in memory of Elena Petrovna Shumilova. M.: RSUH, IVGI named after E.M. Meletinsky, 2022. Pp. 112-124.

• Notes on Translation and Untranslatability in Philosophy and Culture (Russia and Euro­pe) // Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. 2022. Vol. 45. No. 1. Spring Special Issue. Untranslatability: A Problem, or a Practice? Dedicated to Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her 80th Birth Anniversary. Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, India. P. 201–211.

• Existential aspects of the philosophy of cognition in the works of Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Mikeshina // Values and meanings. 2021. No. 1 (71). Pp. 24-32. DOI: 10.24412/2071-6427-2021-1-24-32.

• Juri Lotman and the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics: Contemporary Epistemic and Social Contexts // The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought / Eds.: M.F. Bykova, M.N. Forster, L. Steiner. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. P. 737-753.
• Interdisciplinary perspective in understanding the possibilities of translation // Man and his time: problems of interdisciplinarity of social and humanitarian sciences / Ed. by M.S. Kiseleva. M.: Cultural Revolution. 2021. Pp. 160-181.

• Between "liberty" and "exactness": on the experiments of M.L. Gasparov in the field of translation and translation studies // Humanitarian Studies in Eastern Siberia and the Far East. 2020. No. 2 (52). Pp. 92-98. DOI: 10.24866/1997-2857/2020-2/92-98.

• Deconstruction and translation: on the reception of Derrida in Russia / / Revue ITER. 2020. No. 2. - Traduire Derrida aujourd'hui. URL: https://lire-travailler-derrida.org/revue/natalia-s-avtonomova-deconstruction-et-traduction-sur-la-reception-de-derrida-en-russie.

• Philosophy, Translation, «Untranslatabilitу»: cultural and conceptual aspects // Philosophy’s Treason: Studies in Philosophy and Translation / Ed. by E.M.Spitzer. Vernon Press, Series in Language and Linguistics, 2020.  P. 87–110.

• Experiments in translating the "untranslatable". "Words and Things" by Michel Foucault in the Soviet and post-Soviet cultural context // Des réalités intraduisibles? La traduction au prisme des sciences sociales de l’Antiquité à nos jours / Sous la direction deVincent Bénet. Untranslatable reality? Translation through the prism of social sciences from antiquity to the present day. Editions nouveaux angles; Centre for Franco-Russian Studies-CEFR: Centre d'études franco-russe de Moscou, Moscou, 2019. Pp. 16-30. 

• Between “Voice” and “Code”: Encounters and Clashes in the Communication Space // Philosophical Thought in Russia in the second half of the 20th Century. A Contemporary View from Russia and Abroad / Ed. by Vladislav A. Lektorsky & Marina F. Bykova. N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. P. 261‒275.

• Translation in the context of culture: the fate of "Words and things" by Michel Foucault //  Steps. 2019. Vol. 5. No. 3. Pp. 10-37. DOI: 10.22394/2412-9410-2019-5-3-10-37.

• Gustav Shpet's translation problem: history, criticism, practice // Problems of philosophy. 2019. No. 4. Pp. 69-77. DOI: 10.31857/S004287440004795-9.

• Soviet miracle: about the translation of "Words and things". Interview with a foreword by Elena Smirnova // Logos. 2019. Vol. 29. No 2. C. 151-176. DOI: 10.22394/0869-5377-2019-2-151-176.

• Portrait essay // Self-will of philosophy: collection of philosophical essays / Comp. and edited by O. P. Barb. Moscow: Editorial YASK house, 2019. P. 237.

• "Romanticist (s) in science" and the problem of translation and untranslatability // History of linguistics, history of ideas: Festschrift in honor of Patrick Serio = Histoires des linguistiques, histoires des idées: Mélanges offers à Patrick Sériot / edited by S. Moret and A. de La Fortel. M: OGI, 2019. Pp. 11-27.

• Gasparov and the translation: from Aristotle to Derrida //  Self-will of philosophy: collection of philosophical essays / Comp. and edited by O. P. Barb. Moscow: Editorial YASK house, 2019. Pp. 238-253.

• On some philosophical meanings of the philologist's work // Roman Jakobson, linguistica e poetika. A cura di Edoardo Esposito, Stefania Sini, Marina Castagneto. Milano: Ledizioni, 2018. P. 151-162 (not included in the 2018 report).

• Comparative epistemology of Patrick Serio as "perspective" // Book about the book: rereading "Structure and integrity" / Epistemologica et historiographica linguistic Lausannensia. Moscow: Indrik, 2019. No. 1. C. 21-27.

• "Conversation from two corners": to the history of the failed book project of M.L. Gasparov // Vestnik RSUH. Series «History. Philology. Culturology. Orientalism». 2018.  No. 3(36). Pp. 162-190. DOI: 10.28995/2073-6355-2018-3-162-190.

• Discussions "in the margins": based on the materials of the archive of sectoral discussions // Problems of philosophy. 2018.  No. 10. Pp. 20-30. DOI: 10/31857/S004287440001150-0.

• Yvon Bres: philosopher, psychologist, teacher (for the 90-th anniversary of his birth) // Philosophical sciences. 2017.  No. 9. Pp. 7-21.

• Roman Yakobson's "Russian science": idea and context // Roman Osipovich Yakobson / Ed.: N. S. Autonomova, H. Baran, T.G. Shchedrin. Moscow, 2017. Pp. 167-184.

• Travels between philosophy and philology // Philology: scientific research.  No. 1 (21) 2016. Pp. 58-69.

• From language experiments to the analysis of aporic situations (on the so-called "postmodern relativism" in the concept of Jacques Derrida) // Relativism as a disease of modern philosophy. Moscow, 2015. Pp. 265-298.

• French rulers of souls in the Soviet-Russian context (experience of the reader and translator) // Philosophical sciences. 2015.  No. 9. Pp. 7-24.

• The Problem of the Philosophical Language in Gustav Shpet’s Works // Kronos. Philosophical Journal. 2015. Vol. IV. P. 91-101. (Polish Philosophical Quarterly).

• Between "voice" and "code": meetings and collisions in communication space // Problems and discussions in the philosophy of Russia in the second half of the XX-th century: contemporary view / Ed. by V.A. Lektorsky. Moscow, 2014. Pp. 313-331.

• Perspectives of rationality: a new round of problematization // Cultural and historical epistemology: problems and prospects: to the 70-th anniversary of B.I. Pruzhinin. Moscow, 2014. Pp. 209-223.

• Lotman and Jacobson: romanticism, scientism and the ethos of science // Humanitarian studies in Eastern Siberia and the far East. 2014.  No. 3 (29). Pp. 13-22.

• Roman Jakobson's Life in Language and the epistemological potential of his idea of structure // XXIII World Congress of Philosophy. Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life. Abstracts. Athens 04 – 10 August 2013. Greek Philosophical Society & FISP, 2013. P. 43.

• Le problème de la traduction et l’intraduisible dans la conception sémiotique de Lotman // Glissemens, décentrements, déplacement. Pour un dialogue sémiotique franco-russe / Sous la dir. de M.Costantini. Paris, 2013. P. 49–57. (https://www.bibliotheque-numerique-paris8.fr/fre/cms/Fonds/Colloques_de_Paris_8.html; https://www.bibliotheque-numerique-paris8.fr/fre/ref/164239/COLN3/ )

• Sur le contexte de la philosophie contemporaine en Russie // Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger. Paris: PUF, № 2, avril-juin 2013. Philosopher en Russie aujourd’hui. P. 165–170. (resumé: https://www.cairn.info/resume.php?ID_ARTICLE=RPHI_132_0165).

• Roman Jakobson's Life in Language and the epistemological potential of his idea of structure // Philosophy as Iquiry and Way of Life. Moscow, IphRAS, 2013. 0,25 а.л.

• Überzetzen als universelle Praxis and als philosophisches Problem // Russische Übersetzungswissenschaft an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert / Birgit Menzel/Irina Alekseeva (Hg.) unter Mitarbeit von Irina Pohlan. Berlin: Frank und Timme, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur, 2013. S.103–112.

• Les 20 ans du Collège // Intersections. 1983-2013: Trente ans, et au-delà (livre interactif). 30e anniversaire du Collège International de Philosophie. P. 125–126. (https://30ansciph.org; Intersections_pdf; https://s339402801.onlinehoe.fr/30ans2013.htlm).

• A talk at the «Knowledge in Modern Culture» round table // Questions of Philosophy, 2012, № 9. (In Russian)

• On the problem of ghosts: Marx, Derrida, and others // Annual Journal of Politics and Philosophy. Issue 4. Institute of Philosophy at the Russian Sciences Academy, 2011. (In Russian)

• Epistemology through the prism of language: dialogue, understanding, translation // Epistemology: Prospects of Development. Moscow, Kanon+, 2012. (In Russian)

• The problem of philosophical language in Gustav Shpet’s works // Gustav Shpet and his Philosophical Legacy: At the Cradle of Semiotics and Structuralism. Moscow, ROSSPEN, 2010. (In Russian)

• A dictionary of psychoanalysis: conceptual languages and the problem of translation // Questions of Philosophy, 2010, № 4. (In Russian)

• Translation and untranslatability: the European perspective // Culture and form. Celebrating the 60^th Anniversary of Alexander Dobrokhotov: A collection of essays. Moscow, Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2010. (In Russian)

• Claude Lévi-Strauss – in memoriam: Lessons of structural anthropology and humanism of the 21^st century. // Questions of Philosophy, 2010, № 8. (In Russian)

• History, Structure, Explosion (Contexts of Our Memory of Lotman) // // Russian Studies in Philosophy (On the Eightieth Anniversary of the Institute of Philosophy II). Fall 2009, Vol. 48, № 2.

• Yury Lotman, descending into memory // Yury Lotman / Series: Russian Philosophy in the Second Half of 20^th Century. Moscow, ROSSPEN, 2009. (In Russian)

• Les principles épistémologiques de la critique de l’ethnodéterminisme // Slavica Occitania. Gustav Chpet et son héritage aux sources russes du structuralisme et de la sémiotique. 2008, № 26;

• The Use of Western Concepts in Post-Soviet Philosophy: Translation and Reception // Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Bloomington, Indiana. 2008, Winter;

• On philosophical translation // Questions of Philosophy, 2006, №2. (In Russian)

• Philosophy and philology (on Russian discussions of 1990s) // Logos, Journal of Philosophy and Literature, 2001, № 4. also in: Elusive Context. Russian Philosophy in the 20th Century. Ad Marginem, 2002. (In Russian)

• Prefix as a philosophical category / How should Derrida be translated? // Questions of Philosophy, 2001, №7. (In Russian)

• Derrida and Grammatology // Derrida J. Of Grammatology. Moscow, Ad Marginem, 2000. (In Russian)

• Freud in Europe and Russia: Paradoxes of the «second coming» // Questions of Philosophy, 2000, № 10. (In Russian)

• Notes on the philosophical language: traditions, problems, perspectives // Questions of Philosophy, 1999, № 11. (In Russian)

Leninskiy Komsomol Award for the monograph “Philosophifcal problems of structural analysis in humanities” (1978); several awards in the Iph RAS competitions as a part of the group of authors, Andrei Belyj prize in nomination “Humanities” for the monograph “Open Structure: Jacobson – Bakhtin – Lotman – Gasparov” (Moscow, 2009); 1^st prize of the Institute of Philosophy RAS for the best individual monograph “Cognition and Translations. Essays on the Philosophy of Language” (Moscow, 2008).