Regarding the last ethnological, cultural anthropological, literary, sociological and psychological theories, one property of modern life stories is that they reflect the identities of a given personality. In this study, I would like to aim at showing what they can tell us about the ethnic, local or regional identities of an individual, a family or a given group - with the help of an interdisciplinary analysis method. This method is based on the combination of three theories: the theoretical background ethnography adopting narratology for text analysis, hermeneutic phenomenology coming from sociology and discourse analysis. I would like to illustrate some examples offered by the results of my research about the inhabitants of Galanta, Gabčíkovo and Komárno, which have mixed-ethnic population. The research concentrates on the frame of Slovak-Hungarian relations.
The point of departure in the paper is the problem of Heidegger's anti-logic claims. The author undertakes a short analysis of position taken by Heidegger in the context of the problem of relation between logic and experience. When Heidegger uncovers originality of temporality, he shows the pre-conceptual origins of possible human experience and begins to undermind the dominance of logic. The resulting 'onto-logy'' the author tries to compare with Kant's transcendental philosophy as interpreted by Heidegger. Methodical function of ontology stressed in the paper makes it possible to understand Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology as a discipline that is concerned with the formal meaning of 'phenomenon'.
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