The Felt Body and Embodied Communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
External World ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Inner Sphere ◽  
Embodied Communication ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Western Intellectual

AbstractIn the 4th and 5th centuries B.C. the most significant paradigm change in Western intellectual culture occurred, later affecting Christianity and subsequently science. In the interest of personal empowerment over spontaneous stirrings, a private inner sphere, a so-called soul (psyche) was ascribed to every conscious subject which was taken to contain their whole experience, like a house, conceived of as an inner world in which reason was to be the master of spontaneous impulses; the empirical external world between these inner spheres was cleansed of all gripping forces and, for this purpose, ground down to a few elegantly selected types of features and their carriers (atoms, substances): the remainder of this grindingdown was deposited in the souls or overlooked to nonetheless be found in the souls in changed form. Man was dissected into body and soul. In the transposition into the soul’s huge amounts of life experience were forgotten. Among them can be counted the felt body which disappeared between body and soul as in a crevasse, even though it is the closest thing to human experience.

Mystery in the poetics of romantic tragedy genre (“The Spaniards” by Mikhail Lermontov)

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
E. V. Golovenkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Mikhail Lermontov ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Loss Of A Child ◽  
Moral Choices ◽  
Ideal Sphere ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Tragic Conflict

This paper focuses on the role of the poetics of mystery in the formation of the romantic trag-edy genre. “The Spaniards” by Mikhail Lermontov is considered as a characteristic example of this genre, manifesting “melodramatization” of tragedy and tendency towards genre-generic synthesis. The action of “The Spaniards” is based on events related to the sphere of the mysterious, which are exceptional in life and common in melodrama. Central to the plot is the motif of the loss of a child. The secret of Fernando’s birth and “ignobility” form the con-flict and organize two storylines (love and family) and two (everyday life – melodramatic, and existential – tragic) levels of conflict. Mystery also plays an important role in revealing the inner world and expressing the romantic ideal of the hero. The ability to comprehend the mysterious, to pass beyond human experience and logic is not only the motivation of his ac-tions, but it also connects the hero with the ideal sphere. The study examines how the charac-ters’ anticipation of the “terrible” motivates their moral choices. Analyzing the interaction of lyrical motifs, the author suggests the motif of mystery as important for implementing the main (tragic) conflict, unlike melodrama, where the functions of mystery are plot-forming, stimulating the spectator’s interest and maximizing the dramatic tension. Mystery in the plot and the lyrical concept of the tragedy contributes to the understanding of the essence of the romantic conflict, has a suggestive impact on the audience, and deepens the psychologism.

scholarly journals The beauty of dialog: The disputes between the Greek and Latin theologians in the period of the Komnenoi from the western perspective

2012 ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Relja Seferovic
Keyword(s):  
Primary Sources ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
The Government ◽  
Western Perspective ◽  
Intellectual Climate

On the basis of the chosen Latin primary sources on religious disputes held by the Greek and Latin theologians in the 12th century we assess the intellectual climate in both camps in the eve of the great crisis and the outbreak of mutual hostilities after the government of the Emperor Manuel I. Komnenos, as well as the concrete contribution of these disputes to the Western intellectual culture.

scholarly journals CZŁOWIEK I ŚMIERĆ – MIĘDZY SEPARACJĄ A BLISKOŚCIĄ

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Piotr Ochotny
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Close Attention

The author, in his paper, pays close attention to the uncontrolled dialectics ofdeath within human existence; that which is actively experienced but passivelysustained; is the end of everything but the beginning of something new; is absolutecertainty but unpredictable uncertainty; is always and only personal for me but always and only personal for others, too. In fact, it is very difficult to explain themeaning of death from an ontological study of death: if and how death exists in thearea of human experience; if death is an immanent possibility for personal existenceor, is it introduced from outwith and occurs when we are not still living. To respondto these questions, the author proposes to use the bridging term, with which variousphilosophical positions can be qualified. This bridging term is ‘distance’ and ourdeath experience is defined as the distance between man (person acting) and hissubject (experience). The dialectical nature of this experience implies that deathmight be through an infinite separation or an infinite closeness to man. Driftingbetween those faraway shores, we can find in Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy. Herefers to death as Other (something else for man), but this does not mean that deathis strange or unknown within one’s life experience.

scholarly journals Phraseological units as means of expressing the emotivity in the Tatar language

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-161
Author(s):  
Gulshat Raisovna Galiullina ◽  
Gulfiya Kamilovna Khadieva ◽  
Zilya Mullakhmetovna Mukhametgalieva ◽  
Margarita Emilievna Dubrovina
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Wilhelm Von Humboldt ◽  
Emotional Environment ◽  
Field Linguistics ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Given ◽  
Negative Connotation

Systematization and description of the arsenal of linguistic means of expressing emotions represent one of the major tasks for linguistics that returns nowadays to the theory of Wilhelm von Humboldt, which in the early XIXth century appealed to study the language in close connection with individual speakers. A logical interest of the researchers to the processes of manifestation of emotions in the language has resulted in the formation of a new scientific field – linguistics of emotions aimed at the emotional environment of the language. In the Tatar language human emotions are verbalized mostly by the phraseological units representing various mental states of a person, one’s inner world. Studying means of expressing emotive vocabulary illustrated by the phraseological units provides an opportunity to present the whole complex of means of the language and the speech, as well as contribute to understanding the mentality and psychology of a Tatar language person. This article covers the Tatar phraseological units expressing negative connotation. The theme group “anger” represents the object of research. The authors have studied the emotional and appraisal semantics of the given group of phraseological units and attempted the revealing the specificity of the way of thinking and the worldview of the Tatar people. The analysis revealed that the phraseological units of the studied group are characterized by a great diversity of lexical, semantic, emotional and appraisal aspects. The emotional and appraisal volume of the phraseological units varies depending on the emotional state of the speaker and on his attitude to the addressee. Cultural and connotative semantics of the phraseological units is closely connected to the Tatar people’s worldview which has formed and has been enriched throughout the life experience.

The Non-existence of the Internal World

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-151
Author(s):  
Jan Westerhoff
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Complete Control ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Natural Place ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
The Mind

A natural place of retreat once the reality of the mind-independent world has been challenged is that of the certainty of our inner world, a world which, we assume, is perfectly transparent to us and over which we have complete control, which provides a sharp contrast with an external world of which we have limited knowledge, and which frequently resists our attempts to influence it. The second chapter considers a set of reasons against the existence of this kind of internal world. I consider arguments critical of introspective certainty and query the existence of a substantial self that acts as a central unifier of our mental life. The chapter concludes that a foundation in the internal world remains elusive: our introspective capacities do not give us any more of a secure grasp of an internal world than our five senses perceiving the external world.

scholarly journals Linguocultural Codes in Anna Akhmatova’s Individual Author’s Worldview

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
М. В. Пименова ◽  
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С. А. Алаева ◽  
Ф. Ш. Бекмурзаева ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Separate Area ◽  
Inner World

Undoubtedly, the most promising linguistic research is that performed at the junction of different disciplines, such as cultural studies, psychology, ethnography and history, as it offers us a deeper understanding of language. Linguocultural codes have developed as a separate area of research over the last 20 years and have now attracted the attention of linguists in terms of studying the author’s individual worldview. The purpose of this article was to describe Anna Akhmatova’s implementation of linguocultural codes in her poems, taking into account the linguistic peculiarity of the conceptual metaphors used. It should be noted that this paper is the first attempt in philological literature to study conceptual metaphors through which the linguocultural codes are realized in the author’s worldview of poets and writers. The main methods applied in the research are descriptive, interpretative, and conceptual. We found that linguocultural codes in Akhmatova’s poems are represented by three broad classes: 1) codes of inanimate nature; 2) codes of wildlife; 3) categorical codes. As the study showed, the poetess often turns to two groups of linguocultural codes: wildlife and categorical, the most relevant being the vital and anthropomorphic codes, abundant in conceptual metaphors. Categorical codes are significant from the axiological point of view: the poems include all types of personal evaluations (ethical, aesthetic, utilitarian, and rational). At the same time, the limited colour spectrum is striking: in her works Akhmatova uses two colours – scarlet and black, as well as two shades – pale and light. The identified features largely correlate with Akhmatova’s life experience and reflect her inner world, i.e. sensations, feelings and emotions.

Habermas, Science and Modernity

1999 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 329-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedel Weinert
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
External World ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Western Civilisation ◽  
The Individual

The work of Jürgen Habermas has been described as eclectic. It is also prolific. Fortunately for his readers the prolificacy and eclecticism of the author are mitigated by the recurrence of his themes. These concern the emergence and nature of modern occidental society, both from a sociological and philosophical perspective. On a more philosophical level, there is also a strong plea for a paradigm change. The philosophy of the consciousness made the lone subject, in search of knowledge, face the external world. The dialogic philosophy of Habermas sees interlocutors engaged in dialogue about the material, social and internal world and their many aspects. Furthermore, there are many fruitful sidelines: the nature of language, the personality structure of the individual, socialisation and the status of the social sciences. All these various strands are woven into a coherent model of the nature of western civilisation. In the recombination of the contributory constituents, derived from American pragmatism, German Idealism, Hermeneutics, Marxism, the Frankfurt School of Sociology and Systems Theory, lies the originality and breadth of his work.

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