Потебнианство ошибок или пророчество о постструктурализме: несколько замечаний об антиномизме Брюсова и Вяч. Иванова

The article examines the influence of A.A. Potebnya’s linguistic theory on the aesthetic concepts of V.Ya. Bryusov and Vyach.Iv. Ivanov, revealing how Russian Symbolism reinterpreted language and artistic creation. The author demonstrates that both poets, drawing on Potebnya’s ideas, deconstructed classical linguisticphilosophical models, particularly Humboldt’s “ergon / energeia” antinomy, proposing new approaches to understanding imagery and cultural tradition instead. Bryusov interprets language as a field of temporal conventions where art exists in the antinomy between established and potential forms. His method anticipates poststructuralist deconstruction by emphasizing the contradictions within linguistic structures. The frequent arbitrary handling of historical-philosophical data contributes to deconstructing Humboldt’s doctrine through Potebnya’s teachings to substantiate poetry’s universal validity. In contrast, Ivanov perceives language as the ontological foundation of culture–a “conciliar environment” uniting individual creativity and collective consciousness. The Symbolists employed Potebnya’s theories to justify their literary politics, transforming language into an instrument for manifesting new aesthetic principles. By comparing Bryusov’s and Ivanov’s approaches, the author shows how Russian Symbolism developed diverse strategies for successful literary politics based on differing understandings of publicity’s effects while manipulating the temporality of aesthetic experience to achieve broad recognition of their aesthetics. Potebnya’s doctrine about the dignity of linguistic creativity became a tool for deconstructing fundamental antinomies and asserting the antinomy between ontology and epistemology as primary in art.