The open subject and translations from nature: Answers to the Anthropocene in contemporary poetry (Gennadij Ajgi, Les Murray, Christian Lehnert)

2021 ◽  
pp. 205301962110386
Author(s):  
Henrieke Stahl (Trier)
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Perception ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
The World ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Living Being

With the help of the concepts ‘aura’ and ‘autopoiesis’, the relationship between poetry and natural phenomena can be defined as a ‘translation from nature’. Gennadij Ajgi translates his auratic manner of perceiving into poetry. For him, the poem becomes an epistemic medium transcending the sensory perception of nature for a hidden, spiritual level. Les Murray, conversely, demonstrates an autopoietic understanding of nature: The poet himself becomes the medium of the living being. Christian Lehnert takes up impulses from both orientations. He combines the opposing concepts so that they correspond to the hierarchical levels of his religious and metaphysical vision of the world. The three authors all aim to alter the attitude of humans towards nature through their ‘translation from nature into poetry’ so that humankind will open itself towards nature and raise it from an object which can be instrumentalised to an autonomous subject on equal footing with humanity itself.

scholarly journals MODERN RUSSIAN POETRY IN OLYMPIAD ASSIGNMENTS IN LITERATURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Tatiana G. Kuchina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
School Students ◽  
Object Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Holistic Analysis ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses approaches to a holistic analysis of poetic texts of the 21st century at Literature Olympiads. The main aim of this academic activity of senior schoolchildren is to teach them to demonstrate their own understanding of a poem through considering it as an integral unity of elements and analyzing the most essential features of its artistic structure. The author answers the following questions: what knowledge, skills, competences are tested by assignments on contemporary poetry? What poetics features of modern literature require special attention and how to teach senior schoolchildren to carry out analysis correctly? How can “Olympiad” poetry be of interest to a modern secondary schooler? On the material of the poems by Polina Barskova, Alexei Tsvetkov and Vladimir Gandelsman the article shows possible ways of text analysis that have formed in practical work – primarily in the Sirius educational center (Sochi). The author uses P. Barskova’s poem “Happiness” (2001), included in the tasks of the final stage of the 2019 Literature Olympiad, to show the methods of work with subtext / intertext and subject structure. The relationship between the object-based and symbolic plans, of the empirically “true-to-life” plot and the biblical subtext are in the focus of attention during the analysis of A. Tsvetkov’s poem “The experience of the end of the world” (2019). V. Gandelsman’s poem “In the morning, right after dawn, I am at the foot…” (2018) was offered to students at a trial competition in “Sirius”. The article contains excerpts from the works of secondary school students, showing how they interpreted the poem.

scholarly journals Symbols of Time and Eternity in F. I. Tyutchev’s Nature Lyrics

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-95
Author(s):  
Ludmila G. Shakirova
Keyword(s):  
Entire System ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Infinite Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Hierarchical Levels ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines the poorly studied material concerning Tyutchev, dedicated to the interconnection of symbolism in the poet's works. Based on the analysis of poems, the article proves that the relationship between time and eternity (dating back to antiquity) is the main meaning-forming and connecting principle of Tyutchev’s symbolic system. The author pays special attention to the poem Day and Night, the quintessence of the poet's worldview. The analysis of the poems The Feast is Over, The Swan, The Soul Would Like to Be a Star given in the article makes it possible to understand that time in the lyrics of Tyutchev's nature is constantly associated with the change and movement that are characteristic of the bottom (“dolny world”, the world of “day”); eternity — with a state of immobility and immutability, characteristic of the upper, remote from the “dolny smoke” — infinite space. It is proved that due to the main philosophical opposition between time and eternity, the poet introduces new examples of oppositions, and strengthens the antithetical nature of his entire system. Tyutchev’s symbolic system splits into two hierarchical levels, opposite and at the same time interconnected with each other, each of which is represented by the corresponding links of oppositions, which, in turn, are assigned to a certain scale of values that determine the semantics of time and eternity.

THE INTEGRITY OF MAN AND NATURE IN ORALKHAN BOKEI`S WORKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
B. Abdigaziuly ◽  
◽  
K.K. Atolla ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The World ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Unique Style ◽  
The Relationship

Oralkhan Bokei is a unique person who has his own style in the world of literature. He describes accurately the truth of society, evil intent and noble qualities in human being by combining descriptions of nature and man. He is the writer who showed the charm of literary words with his own unique style. When mentioning the great Altai, we immediately think of Oralkhan Bokei. His sensual descriptions of the mysterious nature, his ability to create a beautiful image in reader`s mind, the style of speech set him apart from his contemporaries. The article deals with the relationship between man and nature, and their unity in Oralkhan Bokei`s works. Writer`s life and works are described. Writer`s skill in connecting situations in human`s life with natural phenomena is analyzed. The excerpts describing the Great Altai and natural phenomena were taken from the stories “Atau kere”, “Muztau”, “Saitan kopir” and analyzed, the integrity of man and nature is proven.

scholarly journals Little Fire, Zygmunt! You are a Guest and I am a Guest… Conceptualization of Fire as a Living Creature in the Polish Folk Culture. An Ethnolinguistic Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-302
Author(s):  
Joanna Szadura
Keyword(s):  
Polish Academy ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
The World ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Living Creature ◽  
Living Being

The analysis is focused on the reconstruction of an image of fire as a living creature, preserved in the Polish folk culture. This image is corroborated by linguistic data, e.g. names, epithets, established connections, riddles, proverbs, formulas of greeting and bidding farewell to a home fire and of obviating fire, as well as by “paralinguistic data” that is beliefs and practices. Conceptualization of natural phenomena (such as fire) in the categories of a living “being” has a general cultural character, corresponds to a vision of the world as an integrated organism whose components are endowed with life and consciousness, and can be a manifestation of the mythical perception of the world. The analysed material has been acquired from dictionaries of dialects, works of folklore collectors and archive resources (i.e. the Ethnolinguistic Archive of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and the File of the Dictionary of Polish Dialects of the Polish Academy of Sciences).

scholarly journals Equivocologias leminskianas / Leminski’s equivocologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Fábio Roberto Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Poetry ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Michel Deguy

Resumo: O artigo pretende investigar possíveis implicações entre a poética de Leminski com suas nuvens de equívocos, ecos contranarcísicos – e suas inquietações sobre o meio- ambiente, tal como se explicitam em alguns textos desde os anos 1970. A interpretação de certos poemas leminskianos exporia que tais implicações não se reduzem à eventual tematização de elementos da natureza, às vezes sublimados de modo parnasiano chic ou haicai-orientalizante. Muito pelo contrário, elas latejariam na relação que o poeta estabelece entre seus gestos (no movimento), os atritos de (dois ou mais) códigos e as vontades e ritmos da matéria. Com isso, a poesia de Leminski nos ajudaria a refinar um pensamento sobre os elos entre poesia e ecologia, linguagem e mundo, construída em diálogo com reflexões sobre esse dilema feitas por Michel Deguy (2007; 2009; 2012) e por Deborah Danowski e Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2014).Palavras-chave: Paulo Leminski; poesia e ecologia; poesia brasileira; poesia contemporânea.Abstract: The article aims to investigate possible implications between Leminski’s poetics with its clouds of equivocities, counter-narcissistic echoes – and his concerns about the environment, as explained in some texts since the 1970s. The interpretation of some of Leminski’s poems would expose that such implications are not limited to the possible thematization of nature’s elements, sometimes sublimated in a Parnassian chic or haiku- orientalizing way. On the contrary, they would pulsate in the relationship that the poet establishes between his gestures (in the movement), the friction between (two or more) codes and the wills and rhythms of the matter. Thus, Leminski’s poetry would help us to refine a thought about the links between poetry and ecology, language and the world, built in dialogue with reflections on this dilemma made by Michel Deguy (2007; 2009; 2012) and by Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2014).Keywords:  Paulo Leminski; Brazilian poetry; contemporary poetry.

scholarly journals Aku dalam Tuhan: Implikasi Teologi Proses pada Era Kontemporer

ULUMUNA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-374
Author(s):  
Suhermanto Ja’far
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
Working People ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Living Being

Theological implications in social lives are still worth analyzed. This paper discusses the authentic image of man as I in the relationship with God and the world. These relationships affect the nature of the world and the world to change the nature of God. The implications of the inclusion of God in the world is God’s presence to the world and the world is affected God. Immanent God is the God who is present in every human being, every living being, and the universe. Every human being is unique and as I am in the uniqueness of God is present. In the directionality that God wanted man and the world become “like Him”, they are united with him; He is involved in the principles and ways of working people and the world. Even though God is in everything and everything is in God, it does not mean that everything is identical, or equal with God. God that is “above” and present “in” the world to make people as I was in the Lord.    

scholarly journals Philosophical and scientific interaction between Vladimir Vernadsky and Pavel Florensky

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 645-656
Author(s):  
Lenka Naldoniová ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Scientific Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
Pavel Florensky ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scientific Interaction ◽  
Living Being

The article focuses on the philosophical and scientific dialogue between Vladimir Vernadsky and Pavel Florensky in the context of Russian philosophy. Florensky formulated his philosophy in the book The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, making a great impact on Vernadsky. The two philosophers exchanged their thoughts through letters. During the time of his imprisonment, Florensky wrote letters on scientific topics to his son Kirill, who worked with Vernadsky. Thus, Kirill Florensky became the point of contact between the two thinkers. The present article aims to show the complementarity between Vernadsky’s and Florensky’s work with a particular emphasis on their conception of noosphere-pneumatosphere connected with Plato’s methaphysics, which Florensky interpreted as the world of the Truth or absolute reality. Through investigating Vernadsky’s and Florensky’s letters and diaries and comparing their conceptions of noosphere and pneumatosphere, as well as their interpretation of reality in their writings, it is possible to determine influences of the concepts important for Russian religious philosophers, such as a tendency towards wholeness and intuition. The first part of the article examines Vernadsky in relation to Russian idealists, the second part of the article is focused on the relationship between Vernadsky and Florensky, and the third on the concepts of noosphere, pneumatosphere, and the concept of reality (living being) — absolute reality (Truth). Through these three steps, the complementarity of Vernadsky’s and Florensky’s interpretations are illustrated. Their interpretations are not contradictory because while Vernadsky dealt with Earth’s reality and its evolution, and Florensky focused on the metaphysical world, both were interested in the evolution of the biosphere-noosphere/pneumatosphere through the activity of man. The article is the first study in English focused on the scientific and religious-philosophical interaction between Vernadsky and Florensky.

Time and Existence

Philosophy ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 53 (204) ◽  
pp. 215-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Space Time ◽  
Time Slice ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
The World ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Temporal Reality ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

Much debate in contemporary metaphysics of time has centred on whether or not tense is essential to the understanding of a temporal reality. The rival positions in this debate are associated with two very different pictures of the relationship between time and existence. Those who argue for the dispensability of tense see the phenomenon of tense as an epistemological accretion which infects our perception of the world but is in no way essential to a complete description of reality. With respect to existence, things past and future are supposed to be on an equal footing with things present. Thus the Quinean ‘time slice’ ontology, which sees the world as a four-dimensional entity in space-time, repudiates any ontological significance to the differences between past, present and future. For the Quinean, what differences we see between past, present and future existents pertain to our limited mode of access to reality. In a perception which grasped the world as it really is tense differences would have no place. In this respect the Quinean position resembles Spinoza's claim in the Ethics that in so far as the mind conceives a thing under the dictates of reason it is affected equally, whether the idea be of a thing future, past or present.

Kazakhstan’s Economic Growth in the Context of the World Economy

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arystanbekov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Crude Petroleum ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Kazakhstan’s economic policy results in 1995-2005 are considered in the article. In particular, the analysis of the relationship between economic growth and some indicators of nation states - population, territory, direct access to the World Ocean, and extraction of crude petroleum - is presented. Basic problems in the sphere of economic policy in Kazakhstan are formulated.

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Simone
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Existential Perspective

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.

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