Věci/znaky, jazyky/komunikace, kultura a cena lidského vědomí: o konstrukci kulturních hodnot „zdola“ a novém humanismu

• Authors: Volek Emil

Title variants

EN

Things/signs, languages/communication, culture and the costs of consciousness: on bottom-up construction of cultural values and new humanism

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This transdisciplinary study (involving humanities, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy) contrasts the reductionist ideological “top-down” focus on the construction of our cultural “world” with the meandering technical “bottom-up” approach, searching for forgotten or usually omitted aspects in current studies of culture. The discovery goes from the cultural “thing theory” to semiotics, to communication, and to the emergence of human language from the biosemiotic and zoosemiotic processes of communication, in order to examine the impact of these processes on human culture and cultural theories. Finally, based on “heretical ideas” of Jan Patočka and Martin Heidegger, some philosophical implications for the new humanism and for humanities are outlined.

Keywords

CS

politika teorie; komunikace; teorie „věci“; sémiotika; ostenze; kultura; humanismus

EN

politics of theory; communication; “thing theory”; semiotics; ostension; culture; humanism

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 54
• Pages: 9-27

Contributors

author

Volek Emil

• Arizona State University, Tempe