The Great Experimenteter, or The Return of A.M. Peshkovskij (Thinking about the Book)

The review article is devoted to the reception of works by A.M. Peshkovskij on the problems of linguistics, methodology of teaching Russian language, poetics and stylistics, published in the first third of the twentieth century and is now inaccessible to readers. The author analyzes the new collection of works by A.M. Peshkovskij, prepared by Professor O.V. Nikitin, who for many years studied the life path and creative heritage of the famous linguist. Special attention is paid to the novelty of the presented material, a wide thematic selection of articles. The facts of the biography of the Peshkovskij family are considered and supplemented. It is spoken about the originality of creative thinking by philologist. The theoretical significance of his works in the XXI century in the field of methodology of analysis of linguistic facts and formulation of linguistic experiments is noted. The article substantiates the relevance of the views of the scientist in the hermeneutic space of the humanities. Its role in modern Russian transcultural practices in linguistics and linguodidactics is also mentioned.