The Language of Science and Political Theory: "Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution"

Student: Tomashevskaia Ekaterina

Supervisor: Mikhail Velizhev

Educational Programme: Russian and Comparative Literature (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This Master's thesis examines the role Peter Kropotkin assigned to natural science and the popularization of science in his life, what arguments and what rhetorical strategies he used when created a work on mutual aid. The research attempts to find out what is the relationship between natural science and political languages in Kropotkin's works, as well as to demonstrate a way of rhetorical legitimation of both scientific theory and political views based on scientific concepts. Reconstructing the polemical situation in which the work under study was created, as well as placing the work in the broad context of the author's contemporary era, allows us to come closer to understanding the meaning of Kropotkin's work on mutual assistance to the extent that it could be perceived by his contemporaries.

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