For the understanding of the concept of Slavic philology and philology in general it is important to recollect briefly what Slavic philology as a discipline was like during Jagic's lifetime. A literary scholar used to make use of entire philological area of study, in terms of language and literature, which naturally required a broader knowledge of Slavic studies, ranging from Old Church Slavic and national languages to a number of competences in literary history, textology, comparative literature, etc. In the further development of Slavic philology, the latter was divided into distinct areas of study, i.e. Slavic languages or Slavic literatures. Unfortunately, today we witness even stronger specialization, i.e. for various Slavic philologies, and even more specific, to literary historians and literary theorists or linguists, specialising in a distinct field of study within one particular Slavic literature or one particular Slavic language. We have come to the point where Slavic studies are almost extinct as a distinct scientific and university study programme, and a question rises whether further development of modern Slavic studies is still possible. In our paper, an interdisciplinary solidarity is advocated, to be achieved by double disciplinarity or multidisciplinarity, which would provide a multilanguage, intercultural and multiliterary education and, maybe, even appearance of a new philology.
