THE READER IN NICHOLAS RUBAKIN'S REVOLUCIONARY BIBLIOPSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

This paper discusses the possibilities of a social perspective for the epistemological-historical framework in Library and Information Science through Nicolas Roubakine’s Bibliopsychology. The objective is to discuss the theoretical and applied notion of the reader through Bibliopsychology and Roubakine’s vocabulary, as revealed in the context of oppression in Tsarist Russia, as one of the central themes of the information field in its sense of social and epistemological rupture. Qualitative, exploratory, and explanatory in nature, this study is characterized as theoretical-critical and is grounded in bibliographic research. The theoretical framework is based on Roubakine’s *Introduction à la psychologie bibliologique* and Roubakinean doxography. The theoretical corpus consists of Roubakine’s work and the epistemological-historical sources that discuss the theorist’s trajectory and core concepts of his thought, such as: the reader, the book, and reading. The analysis and discussion demonstrate how Roubakine understands the epistemological place of the reader in their dialectical relationship with the book through reading, via a conceptual and praxiological unity that determines the scientific construction of the informational field as a rupture—that is, as a revolutionary principle arising from rigorous scientific action. The results point to the construction of the library and information science field—from one of its epistemological-historical perspectives—through a revolutionary lens, from both epistemic and political standpoints, via the centrality of the reader’s action. The concluding remarks highlight how the epistemological-historical constitution of scientific discourse—in its revolutionary structure within Library and Information Science through Bibliopsychology—grounds reading in the social landscape through the construction of reality by the reader.