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This genealogically-oriented essay considers two novels, 'Hordubal' by Karel Capek and 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco, both of which are built on the plan of the classic intellectual English detective story. It seeks to demonstrate that in each, the fundamental noetic principle of the genre, which is the belief that the world can be known in its entirety, without complications, is eroded.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2021
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vol. 76
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issue 4
293 – 306
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The paper intends to introduce main points of Eco’s critique of Vattimo’s philosophy. It focuses on differences in their approaches and provides a closer view of one of the philosophical discussions happening at the wake of the new millennium. We focus on understanding reality and the limits of interpretation as the two key points of Eco’s consideration and criticism. In 1983, Umberto Eco participated in publishing the well-known volume “weak thought”, although he later no longer considered himself part of the philosophical initiative. He represents a position of minimal or negative realism. Gianni Vattimo is a proponent of the “weak thought”, where reality is not introduced as stable, natural or objective. Reality does not itself speak out but needs a spokesmen or motivated interpreters. Vattimo, therefore revives Nietzsche’s thought “There are no facts, only interpretations”, which he deploys further in his own way.
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The chief motivation for introducing abstract subjects in literary studies is the analysis of the operation of the work of literature in the process of communication between author and reader. One observes two main problems with Eco’s theory of abstract subjects: the effectiveness of introducing a conceptual framework and its application to the analysis of the levels of communication in the narrative text. The treatment of the problem of the effectiveness of introducing abstract subjects assumes mainly a clarification of certain metatheoretical and possibly also theoretical premises. At the metatheoretical level one can distinguish between the ‘realistic’ and the ‘functionalistic’ approach. In the first, the chief task is to describe the nature and relations of the basic constituents of the process of communication, in which this description is influenced by the underlying ontology appearing in the terminology of the given theory. In the second, the chief task is to illustrate the structure of the process of communication and of the abstract positions that constitute the basic components of this structure. The problem of the analysis of communication in narratological texts in Eco’s works presumes the correlation of the terms of model author and model narrator, in other words, two different levels of communication implemented by means of the literary text, where the communication between author and reader lies on one side and the communication taking place within the fictional world of the narrative lies on the other. This article seeks mainly to achieve a critical assessment of the means by which Eco operates with the premise of the abstract subjects of model author and model reader. The article intends to offer reflections on possible approaches in a specific literary studies debate, and, on this basis, to define the space for more narrowly defined discussions with individual standpoints, and to limit the emergence of pseudo­discussions that arise from fuzzy (meta)theoretical framework.
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The aim of the paper is to offer an interpretation of U. Eco's hyper-reality and J. P. Baudrillard's simulacrum as related to the conceptions of mixed reality and virtual continuum (Milgram, Kishino), which have been presented in the laboratories of communication technology in the early 1990s. The paper tries to show the interference point of the two approaches - philosophical (semiotic) and technical ones, as well as the possibility and necessity to revise some traditional philosophical question and categories, such as humanity or reality.
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