The Mobius strip of the pragmasemantics of sense: from culture through subjectivity to nothingness and back
... Human existence is marked by absence, lack, loss, and an aspiration for change. It resembles an emptiness that defies classification, a drifting surplus that connects the unconnected. In this context, the article places particular emphasis on the apophatic nature of sense formation. Pauses, intervals, breaks, and gaps give rise to signs within the backdrop of non-existence. Subjectivity functions as a ‘user of voids’, serving as a metacontext, a source, means, and outcome of sense formation....
Non-translation and translation in Heidegger, Losev, and Ortega y Gasset
... communication, and Ortega y Gasset takes a fundamentally anti-communicative position, Losev, on the contrary, emphasizes communication. Losev and Heidegger operate with the concept of clarity: the former consistently strives for maximum clarity by using apophatic techniques to eliminate irrelevant interpretations of meanings, but clarity is more of a propaedeutic task; the latter does not aim for clarity but utilizes the technique of infinite clarification. Both approaches raise the question of whether ...
Pushkin as a personal myth of the Russian avantgarde
This article analyses strategies for cultural appropriation and the appropriation of Pushkin’s personality and oeuvre by the Russian avant-garde. The treatment of Pushkin by the avant-garde is considered as a peculiar variant of cultural apophaticism when the object of reflection is asserted through its consistent negation. The factography of the Russian avant-garde proves that, from its earliest stages the creative system has been constructing its own Pushkin myth, within which the poet has...
Language as a system of world outlook in A. Losev’s conception
... Бог. Человек. Слово: лингво-философский очерк. Саратов, 1992.
Ieronova I. Y., Prozorova M. I.
onthological essence of language, self-understanding, other-wordly existence, name, human
language activities, apophatism, communication, interpretative semantics, inferential pragmatics
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