А. A. Bogdanov: tektology serving the proletkult

Abstract

In A. Uyemov's "The General Systems Theory for the Humanitarians" A. Bogdanov's tektology is called like a predecessor of the contemporary general systems theory and systems research [12, c. 315]. A. Uyemov saw tektology as a 'systems proto-theory' [11]. That point of view was supported by G. Povarov who considered tektology as a precursor for L. von Bertalanffy's general system theory and N. Wiener's cybernetics [8, c. 24], M. Setrov [9], and А. Takhtajan [10, c. 29]. Today in the post-Soviet humanities, science, and philosophy it is commonplace to consider A. Bogdanov's tektology as a foregoer for general systems theory and, indeed, to put it at the same level with systems research, including cybernetics and synergetics, semiotics, structuralism and functionalism – and in general to see in tektology an interdisciplinary conception.