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Jazykovedný Casopis
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2013
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vol. 64
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issue 2
93-108
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This paper is intended to be an introduction to the elucidation of the mutual understanding on the basis of the concept interpretation. The author raises the question about how is it possible to understand each other in spite of the fact that the mental world is immediately inaccessible. He argues that the possibility of the mutual understanding is an anthropological constant: the human being is set for understanding as a result of the evolutional mature of his interpretational ability. The major part of the text is an attempt at explanation of the role of interpretation in the process of shaping of the subject. It is argued that the germ of the subjectivity is the instinct for self-preservation which determines the fundamental relation of the human to the world: the world is seen through the lens of egocentrism. Showing that the possibility of the mutual understanding of egocentric subjects is a deceptive paradox helps us comprehend the anthropological foundation of this phenomenon. The final part of the text outlines the problem of the mutual understanding in the real interactional conditions and focuses the attention on three fundamental factors: ego, language, egoism
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Originating from the concept of literature being total and timeless, the essay rereads Zbigniew Morsztyn’s Myśl ludzka [Human Thought] and a short passage from James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The cosmographies identified in both texts prove to be not just allegorical maps of the human thought − a baroque and modernist one referred to as geocentric and egocentric one respectively but also reversed copies of each other. Joyce andMorsztyn independently discovered this ‘everything’ − a virtual content of the human thought, just as Augustine of Hippo had before them and described it in the tenth book of his Confessions. Both Morsztyn and Joyce figuratively described this microscopic substance of thought as infinite in Pascal’s terms yet, strangely enough, their descriptions are somewhat symmetrically reversed.
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Esej wyrasta z namysłu nad totalnością literatury − i jej bezczasowością. Stanowi próbę odczytania na nowo Myśli ludzkiej Zbigniewa Morsztyna i zarazem krótkiego ustępu Portretu artysty z czasów młodości Jamesa Joyce’a. Znalezione w obu tekstach kosmografie okazują się nie tylko alegorycznymi mapami ludzkiej duszy − odpowiednio barokowej (geocentrycznej) i modernistycznej (egocentrycznej) − ale też negatywowymi kopiami samych siebie. Joyce i Morsztyn, tak jak św. Augustyn w dziesiątej księdze Wyznań, znaleźli w swoich duszach „wszystko”. Obaj, w sposób figuratywny, opisali mikroskopijną zawartość myślenia jako nieskończoną w Pascalowskim sensie tego pojęcia − jakkolwiek ich opisy, o dziwo, są względem siebie jakby symetrycznie odwrócone.
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