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Мова музейних пам’яток як метафізична теорія
The Language of Museum Objects as Metaphysics Theory

Author(s): Serhii Borisovich Rudenko
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Metaphysics, Semiology, Philosophy of Language, Culture and social structure , Theory of Communication, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: language of museum; museum representation; language of museum objects; Popper's three worlds; fetishism; social and cultural use of museum; D.F.Cameron; curio theory of museum; museum semiotics;

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of the article. To reveal is the theory of language of museum objects is scientific or metaphysics. Methodology. Criticism and falsifiability by K.Popper. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the method of museum objects was under scientific criticism. It was proven that this theory is metaphysics. Bring to the light that the role of communication was exaggerated. Firstly, the museum connected with the third world (by K.Popper). Conclusions. Theory of language of museum objects has ancient roots – fetishism. In spite of this, this theory wasn’t under scientific criticism. The idea of the physical presence of information in museum objects rejected in the process of verification. Theory of language of museum objects «immunizes» with the concept of the museum as the communication system. It seems that museum objects include physical information when they switch on this system. But museum representations are not products of communication. Museum representations describe the third world in the second using the first world (Popper's theory of three worlds).

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 49-57
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Ukrainian