scholarly journals Excess — transgression — sanctity: analysis of St. Withelm’s life (according to The Lives of the Saints by Piotr Skarga)

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz
Keyword(s):  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Victor Turner ◽  
Lives Of The Saints

The paper presents an analysis of the life of St. Wilhelm. It is based on The Lives of the Saints (Żywoty świetych) by Piotr Skarga published in Vilnius in 1579. The article is a development of earlier findings and researches on the phenomenon of transgression in The Lives of the Saints [Cybulska-Bohuszewicz 2018, 13–36]. As tools of analysis, it uses the concepts developed by thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Józef Kozielecki and Victor Turner. The work is innovative, because so far The Lives of the Saints has not been studied in this way. At the same time, the sketch is only a contribution to further research, culminating in a monograph devoted to the issues of transgression, sanctity and atopy in the work mentioned.

scholarly journals Violencia y caos en la experiencia religiosa. La dimensión dionisíaca de los cultos afro-brasileños

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 64-104
Author(s):  
José Jorge De Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Victor Turner

Este ensayo ofrece una discusión teórica general sobre el lugar de la violencia, la obscenidad y el caos en las prácticas religiosas. Los principales datos etnográficos proceden del mundo simbólico de los cultos de posesión afrobrasileños, especialmente los conocidos como jurema y macumba, cuyos rituales están marcados por una atmósfera de erotismo crudo, violencia dramatizada y comportamiento anárquico. El núcleo del argumento consiste en explorar conceptualmente una dimensión caótica de la realidad que trasciende los confines de los arreglos antiestructurales, la inversión simbólica, la transgresión o la carnavalización del mundo, tal como lo teorizaron Lévi Strauss, Victor Turner, Georges Bataille y Mikbail Bakhtin, entre otros. Se argumenta que este estado de caos prerrepresentativo y creativo, capaz de generar nuevos ordenamientos simbólicos e, incluso, violencia literal, puede expresarse con mayor intensidad y plenitud en el ámbito religioso que en otros ámbitos de expresión simbólica. También se discute el tema del sacrificio humano, en relación con algunas de las deidades del panteón afrobrasileño. Con el fin de ampliar la comprensión de este argumento bastante complejo, se extraen analogías de diversas tradiciones religiosas, textos literarios (como el Fausto de Goethe y la Batracomiomachia de Homero) y movimientos artísticos europeos recientes. Por último, se ofrece un contraste detallado, o lectura cruzada, entre el mundo de los espíritus de jurema y el mundo dionisíaco, tal como se expresa en la destacada tragedia de Eurípides, Las Báquedas.

Friedrich Nietzsche

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Lemm
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Eternal Recurrence ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
Point Of Reference

Readers of Giorgio Agamben would agree that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is not one of his primary interlocutors. As such, Agamben’s engagement with Nietzsche is different from the French reception of Nietzsche’s philosophy in Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Georges Bataille, as well as in his contemporary Italian colleague Roberto Esposito, for whom Nietzsche’s philosophy is a key point of reference in their thinking of politics beyond sovereignty. Agamben’s stance towards the thought of Nietzsche may seem ambiguous to some readers, in particular with regard to his shifting position on Nietzsche’s much-debated vision of the eternal recurrence of the same.

The place of the plant world in the worldview system of transoxiana sufism in 16th century

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (Extra-A) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Lutfullo Eshonovich Ismoilov ◽  
Ramil Tagirovich Yuzmukhametov ◽  
Markhabo Tukhtasunovna Rajabova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
Lives Of The Saints

The article considers the topic of the Plant World in the Sufi writings of the 16th century Transoxiana, based on the material of manakibs, i. e. the so-called Lives of the Saints. The significance and relevance of the topic is due to the need to study the issues of semantic interpretation of the concept of plant and plant world in Sufi writings. Hence, the purpose of this article is to disclose the diverse meanings of the concept of the “World of Plants” contained in the 16th-century Transoxiana manakibs of such authors as Abdurakhman Jami, Abu-l Baka b. Khodzha Bakha-ud-din, Khusein Serakhsi. The main method in the study of this issue is the historical and comparative method, and the method of literary analysis, which allows you to create a holistic understanding of the symbolism of the Plant World in Sufi writings of Transoxiana of the 16th century.      

METÁFORA E SÍMBOLO: A ESTÉTICA DO SAGRADO NA LINGUAGEM POÉTICA

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Leyla Thays Brito da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Paul Ricœur

Este trabalho tem como objetivo discorrer sobre a representação do sagrado na linguagem poética. Para o conceito de sagrado, adotamos a proposição do filósofo Georges Bataille, em sua obra L'Expérience Intérieure, na qual o autor localiza a matéria sagrada em dimensões da experiência humana, que são inapreensíveis racionalmente. Parado-xalmente, a poesia, ao se utilizar de signos especiais, como a metáfora e o símbolo, procura acessar essas zonas misteriosas da existência.  Para entendermos o funcionamento dos signos poéticos, utilizamo-nos da hermenêutica de Paul Ricoeur, a partir da obra Teoria da Interpretação, em que o autor expõe, por um lado, a formulação lógico-discursiva da metáfora e, por outro, os enigmas e sombras do símbolo, que é marcado por características não-semânticas, as quais apontam os elementos sagrados de sua composição. A partir da análise de alguns textos poéticos, buscaremos identificar como se dá o processo poético conflituoso de encontro e também de impossibilidade de um alcance absoluto do sagrado.

Los avatares del logos

2001 ◽  
pp. 21-31
Author(s):  
Leticia Flores Farfán
Keyword(s):  
Georges Bataille ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
The World ◽  
The Human Condition

Assuming with Georges Bataille that men is a being who is not in the world “like water within the water”, that is to say, in an immanent and lack of distinction state, but that its destiny is shaped in the permanent significant joint or logos to which its unfinished nature jeopardizes him, we analyze the form in which the mythical story, characterized like a sacred word with symbolic and ontological quality within the perspective of Mircea Eliade, gives account of the wound or the original tear that constitutes the human condition.

scholarly journals Saints on Stage: Popular Hagiography in Post-WWII Italy

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Daniela Cavallaro
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Young People ◽  
Educational Goal ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Lives Of The Saints

This article brings to light several examples of the hagiographic plays staged in Italy during the 1950s and early 1960s in parishes, schools, and oratories. The article begins with a brief introduction to the continued tradition of staging the lives of the saints for educational purposes, which focuses on the origins, aims, and main characteristics of theatre for young people of the Salesians, the order founded by Don Bosco in 1859. Next, it offers a brief panorama of the pervasive presence of the lives of the saints in post-WWII Italy. The main discussion of the article concerns the hagiographic plays created for the Salesian educational stages in the years between 1950 and 1965, especially those regarding the lives of young saints Agnes and Domenico Savio. The article concludes that the Salesian plays on the lives of the saints, far from constituting a mere exercise in hagiography, had a definite educational goal which applied to both performers and audiences in the specific times of Italy’s reconstruction and the cold war.

On the Lives of the Saints

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Therese Aquinas Roche ◽  
Stephen Toulmin
Keyword(s):  
Lives Of The Saints
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