Images of Reality For the Human of the 21st Century - The Pandemonium of Babel As a Metaphore Cover Image

A XXI. századi ember valóságképmásai - A bábeli nyelvzavar mint metafora
Images of Reality For the Human of the 21st Century - The Pandemonium of Babel As a Metaphore

Author(s): József Tornai
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Kortárs Folyóirat Kiadói Kft.
Keywords: metaphysics; the language of mythology; religion or science;

Summary/Abstract: József Tornai has been fighting with problems of metaphysics since the beginning of his career as a poet. In this phylosophical essay he traces down the global process how the humanity was losing the illusions of its self-image in the course of centuries, which led to a deep doubt in the cognizability of the world by the end of the 20th century. Each kind of knowledge can be conveyed in a certain kind of language only - for example in the language of mythology, religion or science - and these languages cannot be translated into each-other.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 33-37
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Hungarian