Empirical Science of Literature as a Scientific Therapy

This thesis aims at offering solutions for the present structuralist and hermeneutic anomalies of literary science. Relying on the epistemology of empirical literary science, radical constructivism and the constructivist theory of language, it asserts the view that meaning is not to be considered as part of the text. Its primary goal is to eliminate the anomalies of meaning, evaluation and historicity from the discourse of literary science. It introduces the theory of autopoietic systems and presents the non-conservative approach to literary science. Finally, it outlines the meta-and object theories of non-conservative literary historiography, and thoroughly argues for a perception of the past as an intellectual construction made by communities of historiographers.