The Henri Meschonnic Reader

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henri Meschonnic
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Generation ◽  
First Time

Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He strove throughout his career to reform the understanding of language and all that depends on it. His work has had a shaping influence in various fields and its importance is growing. Here, for the first time, some of the key texts are made available in English for a new generation of scholars in the humanities. By introducing key works of Henri Meschonnic, this Reader will enrich, enhance and challenge your understanding of language. This book includes fourteen key texts which cover the core concepts and topics of Meschonnic’s theory. It explores his key ideas on poetics, the poem, rhythm, discourse and his critique of the sign. Meschonnic’s vast oeuvre was continuously preoccupied with the question of a poetics of society; he constantly connected the theory of language to its practice in various fields and interrogated what that means for the individual and society. In exploring this fundamental question, this book is central to the study and philosophy of language, with rich repercussions in fields such as translation studies, poetics and literary studies, and in redefining notions such as rhythm, modernity, the poem and the subject. The Reader is accompanied by introductory texts to Meschonnic, his key concepts and his poetics of society, as well as by a glossary, index and bibliography.

scholarly journals The specifics of interpretation of the history in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine»

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
S. V. Sheyanova ◽  
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N. M. Yusupova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction: at present the reader’s audience is particularly interested in creative experiments in which the historical fate of the Russian peasantry in the «turning» eras is artistically comprehended. The article is devoted to the study of the problem-thematic range of modern Mordovian historical prose. The subject of analysis is the peculiarity of the reception of the period of collectivization and dekulakization in the story by Erzyan prose writer A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine». Objective: to reveal the features of the artistic reconstruction of the events of the 1930s, the modeling of the relationship between a man and society in the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine».Research materials: the story by A. Doronin «A Wolf Ravine». Results and novelty of the research: the historical story « A Wolf Ravine » for the first time becomes the object of scientific understanding and is introduced into the context of Finno-Ugric literary criticism. A. Doronin artistically interprets the real events and circumstances of the resettlement of dispossessed peasants of the Volga region to the uninhabited steppes of Kazakhstan. As a result of the study, we conclude that the actualization of this problem-thematic cluster is due to the creative concept of the historical writer; the individual author’s approach to the reconstruction of historical narrative can be traced in the writer’s desire to realistically reveal the relationship of personality and society in the tragic 1930s; to analyze intentions of people and of the psychological states of the characters. Problems of a sociopolitical nature, actualized in the story, are filled with philosophical, axiological content, and lead to a multi-faceted understanding of the «man and history» problem.

»Die durch das Bild angegebene Regel«. Die Ersetzung des Schemas durch das Symbol in der Sprachphilosophie der Reden an die deutsche Nation

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 90-108
Author(s):  
Tamás Hankovszky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
German Nation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theory Of Language

According to the early Fichte, designation of mental concepts and highly abstract concepts happens by means of ‘schemata’. Through an unconscious mechanism, we transfer the name of a sensible thing into a supersensible object. Fichte looked upon this process as a source of mistakes. In Addresses to the German Nation, he changes his conception and puts symbols or actual images in the place of schemata. These images don’t unify sensible and supersensible notions as schemata do, rather they draw an analogy between these notions. This analogy guides the subject in creating a notion. The word initiates and inspires the process for creating a notion. Furthermore, the word shows through the image, in what way we should set in motion our capacity of representation. So the word does not offer abstract rules for the reason but gives an image which contains the rules of procedure.From my point of view, Fichte modified his theory of language not only to deal with problems immanent to the philosophy of language. He aimed to construct a philosophy of language which was much more consistent with the view of the human being and the conception of intersubjectivity according to the Wissenschaftslehre. The modified philosophy of language proves more convincingly that basically when we understand speeches of others we neither apprehend perfect meanings nor receives ideas of others more or less passively but we re-create or re-produce thoughts of the speakers.Nach dem frühen Fichte bezeichnet die Sprache die „geistigen“ und die „sehr abstrakten“ Begriffe mit Hilfe von Schemata. Ein unbewusster Mechanismus überträgt den Namen sinnlicher Gegenstände auf übersinnliche. In diesem Verfahren sah Fichte eine Quelle von Fehlern. Die Reden modifizieren diese Theorie so, dass die Schemata durch Symbole bzw. Bilder ersetzt werden. Sie vereinigen nicht wie die Schemata sinnliche und übersinnliche Vorstellungen, sondern stellen eine Analogie zwischen ihnen her. Diese Analogie weist darauf hin, welche Vorstellung ein Subjekt bilden muss. Das Wort gibt einen Anlass und eine Anleitung zur Vorstellungsbildung und die von ihm bereitgestellte Information zeigt zugleich, wie wir unser Vorstellungsvermögen in Bewegung setzen müssen. Es teilt dabei keine abstrakten Regeln mit, sondern bietet in einem Bild Anweisung für das Gemüt. Nach meiner These änderte Fichte seine Sprachlehre nicht nur, um ein immanentes sprachphilosophisches Problem lösen zu können. Sein Ziel war es wohl auch, eine Sprachphilosophie zu schaffen, die besser dem Menschenbild der Wissenschaftslehre und ihrer Intersubjektivitätslehre entspricht, als die frühere. Die revidierte Sprachphilosophie kann überzeugender belegen, dass wir beim Verstehen der Sprache anderer Menschen nicht ausgemachte Bedeutungseinheiten begreifen und nicht Gedanken von außen aufnehmen, sondern diejenigen Gedanken re-produzieren und re-konstruieren, die auch der Redner gedacht und ausgesprochen hat.

scholarly journals La Parole Oblique. Merleau-Ponty et les Enjeux d’une Éthique de L’indirect

Phainomenon ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 18-19 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Alloa
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Claude Simon ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Thing

Abstract Philosophical speech is required to reach the core of the things themselves, often at the risk of subsuming the individual thing under the law of a general concept and ruining its singularity. Is another approach available to philosophy at all ? The question of the violence of the discourse has been raised by many thinkers in the 20th century. Just as Wittgenstein, Husserl demanded for a replacement of deduction by description which would let the things appear in their own light. Merleau-Ponty has rephrased the task of a maieutic phenomenology in terms of”letting see through words” (faire voir par les mots), whereas the direct, exhaustive thematization is given up for an indirect speech, letting the world speak in its own “prose”. While the “indirect ontology” in Merleau-Ponty’s last works has received wide attention these last years, little case has been made of the linguistic implications of the figure of its philosophical operator, the “indirect speech”. What is the status of the “ logos” in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomeno-”logy”? By relating Merleau-Ponty’s reflections on the language of philosophy (rather than on philosophy of language) to the linguistic discussion on free indirect speech (Tobler, Kalepky, Bakhtin) as well as to its use in literature, from Dostoyevsky to Claude Simon, a new perspective opens up of an “indirect ethics”, which implies that whoever speaks in the name of the Other is already spoken by him or by her.

scholarly journals “EVANGELICAL TEXT” OF THE NOVEL “CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” IN VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-152
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Hoan ◽  
Galina G. Yermilova
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Russian Orthodoxy ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time

The article for the first time explores the translation of the ‟evangelical text” of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel ‟Crime and Punishment” into Vietnamese. The ‟evangelical text” refers to the New Testament quotations, for the first time both in the writer’s work and in the Russian literature of the 19th century as a whole, widely used by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Threeauthoritative translations by Trương Định Cư (1972), Lý Quốc Sinh (1973), Cao Xuân Hạo (1982-1983) are involved. The translation of the Bible into Vietnamese used by translators and involved in the liturgical practice of the Vietnamese Orthodox Church, has been revealed. On the basis of a continuous text sample of the «evangelical text» three translations were compared with the original and reverse translations, followed by an analytical commentary. The subject of the article is a monologue of «drunken» Semyon Marmeladov in the tavern (p. 1, ch. 2), saturated with New Testament quotations, and an evangelical scene about raised Lazarus (p. 4, ch. 4). It is concluded that when translating the «evangelical text» of the novel, the Vietnamese translators experienced serious difficulties due to ignorance of Russian Orthodoxy, which is still perceived in Vietnam to this day as a kind of exotic. Some specific refinements to existing translations are proposed.

scholarly journals Color Conceptosphere of the Story “Meshcherskaya Side” by K. Paustovsky

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Sivova
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
Color Terms ◽  
Functional Potential ◽  
Compatibility Analysis ◽  
Color Spectrum ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Color Sequence ◽  
First Time

The purpose of the article is to reconstruct a fragment of K. Paustovsky’s coloristic picture of the world on the material of the story “Mescherskaya side”, which had not previously become the subject of special research carried out from the standpoint of linguistics of color, which determines the scientific novelty of this work. The research methodology is based on the descriptive and analytical method, the method of compatibility analysis, the method of contextual analysis, quantitative data processing. As the result of the research 1) the composition of color concepts, actualized by the writer in color chronotope creation, was revealed; only the color core of the story is represented by 24 color terms; 2) the dominants of the story color spectrum (black, green, gray) were determined; this color sequence is unique: it is recorded in Paustovsky’s works for the first time; 3) the color dominants denotative spheres (predominantly nature, artifacts, man) were established; 4) the functional potential of color terms was described; it includes the ontological function, the species function, the terminological function, as well as the function of temporal meaning transfer, the evaluative function, the aestheticization one; 5) the individual author’s specificity of artistic perception and reality coloristic visualization was revealed; among the significant color individual features are multicolor effect, non-stereotyped color characteristics, color associativity. The results obtained make it possible to create a comprehensive description of the story’s color conceptosphere.

Ergology of Western Polissian folk reed pipes

Ethnomusic ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-131
Author(s):  
Victoriya Yarmola ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Specific Production ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Longitudinal Splitting ◽  
The Core ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

In the publication, a technological system of traditional whistling reed pipes produced by folk artists, widespread in Western Polissia, is revealed for the first time in a step-by-step process. The proposed exploration is based on its expeditionary records and material collected by various folklorists and employ- ees of Kyiv and Lviv research institutions, as well as some literary sources. 131 The existence of three types of nozzle instruments, the names of which correspond to the methods of their production: a pipe made from bark, a vykrutka and kolianka are established. Western Polissian folk reed pipes belong to the type of longitudinal whis- tle flutes with an internal cleft formed by the insertion of the whistling device at the upper end of the tube, and with holes placed on the front, sometimes on the back of the instrument. Whistle airphones have specific production features, according to the age group of masters: shepherd children, teens and adults. The easiest to manufacture among the discovered pipe instruments are ones made of bark, which had been previously removed from the branches of bush trees. In the process of removing the bark shepherds told special spells, which were recorded by the author on the researched area. The following two types of tools were made of wood: a kolianka in the form of a longitudinal splitting of the branch into two equal parts, a vykrutka - a screwing out the core of pine wood, which required a masters knowledge of certain empirical and professional skills. The folk pipe instruments played the role of a musical instrument, which corresponded to the individual artistic and aesthetic test of the flute maker and served as an integral part of the Polisian shepherd's everyday life

scholarly journals OBJECTIVATION OF THE INTROVERT TYPE OF A PERSONALITY IN THE NOVEL"TICKET TO THE STARS" BY V. AKSYONOV

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliya F. Bormusova ◽  
Dinara I. Rakhimov ◽  
Nailya N. Fattakhova
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Type ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Psychological Types ◽  
The Core ◽  
Individual Traits ◽  
Methods Of Synthesis ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

The current research is executed in the mainstream of psycholinguistics within which the theory of psychological types has been developing in the last decades. The analysis of an introspective psychological type is carried out in the article on the basis of an art discourse viewing which we are guided by the theory of the identity of K.G. Jung. On the material of the story by V.P. Aksyonov "Ticket to the stars" the introspective type of the personality is being investigated for the first time; it is represented by the personage of the graduate student Victor, the elder brother of the main character of the story – of Dimka. In general, being stereotypic, the analyzed character has a number of the individual traits latently pointing to his professional activity. For the description of structure of the core of a psychological type the typified and individual signs are revealed; the share of these signs in the formation of the studied psychological type is defined. The analysis was carried out with the application of the methods of synthesis and generalization.

scholarly journals Freedom and the principles of morality

2003 ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Zagorka Golubovic
Keyword(s):  
Essential Difference ◽  
Vital Activity ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Given ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Process Characteristic ◽  
Free Activity

Freedom as an authentic and willed process, characteristic of man as a human rational being, enables the individual to act in accordance with the principles of morality, since the individual can choose between good and evil (between two possibilities), and in this way to get out of the sphere of the given to which the rest of the living world is limited. We should recall the forgotten Marx and his famous text on the essential difference between the animal world and humanity as a genus: "The animal is immediately united with its vital activity. It does not differ from it. It is vital activity. Man makes his own vital activity the subject of his will and consciousness. He has conscious vital activity. This is not a determination with which he merges immediately. Conscious vital activity distinguishes man directly from animal vital activity. It is exactly in this way alone that he is a generic being. Or a conscious being, i.e. his own life is a subject for him precisely because he is a generic being. It is only for this reason that his activity is free activity..." (K. Marx, "Alienation", Early Works). In other words, while animals live just the life of their species and cannot choose anything else, since the choice has been made by the fact of their belonging to a species, man can choose the world in which to live, overcoming in this way the natural givens. Here lies the core of the anthropological explanation of the principle of morality, inconceivable without man's ability to be an authentic free being.

scholarly journals Reproductive ecology of Atherina hepsetus L. (Pisces: Atherinidae) of the west coast of Crimea

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Samotoy ◽  
G. V. Zuev
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Gonadosomatic Index ◽  
Gonad Development ◽  
The West ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time ◽  
Sea Fish ◽  
Calendar Dates

Atherina hepsetus L. (Atherinidae) is a numerous pelagic species in the Azov – Black Sea basin and the subject of fishery in some areas. However, information about biology and ecology of this species has been very scanty and fragmentary until nowadays. This work is devoted to the study of interannual and seasonal variability of some individual and population reproductive parameters of A. hepsetus of the west coast of Crimea in theBlack Sea. Fish were caught by trap-nets during 2010–2014 with intervals for 2–3 times per month. 2043 specimens were studied. Concepts of general, population and mass reproductive periods were studied for the first time; interannual changes of their duration and calendar dates of beginning and end of spawning were established. The intensity and spawning seasonal dynamics, gonad development in males and females were studied. The individual and population values of gonadosomatic index were identified. The range of reproductive water temperature variability (8.5–14.5 °C) and the zone of the most favorable spawning temperature (9–12 °C) were found.

scholarly journals Axiological challenges of the individual religiosity of the Orthodox believer in conditions of religious freedom and freedom of conscience

2017 ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Kulagina-Stadnichenko
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
Religious Motivation ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time ◽  
Metaphysical Status

Today, researchers are increasingly concerned about the loss of humanity's landmarks of their development, which, naturally, leads to attempts to realize the goals and meanings of being an individual through the religious motivation of the formation of his outlook. In the XXI century, for the first time, the existential states of man, that is, his life's self-determination and election, not only became the object of conceptual reflection, but also acquired a qualitatively new metaphysical status, in contrast to the traditional one, became the subject of another, existential, method of philosophizing. System-forming concepts of a new type of reflection have become "man", "existence", "personality", "consciousness" instead of earlier established categories of "world", "being", "essence". As a result, world events are now interpreted as subjective or radically dependent on the subject. From this perspective, the analysis of the existentialities of human existence (in particular, the phenomena of freedom, love, holiness), the elucidation and realization of their heuristic, ontological, epistemological, and methodological potential of Orthodoxy - seems to be a very topical task.

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