ХАМВАШ ЗА ЕВРОПА И НЕЈЗИНИОТ ОДНОС КОН ОСТАНАТИОТ СВЕТ, МИТОТ ЗА НАУКАТА И САМОТИЈАТА
HAMVAS ON EUROPE AND ITS POSITION TOWARD THE REST OF THE WORLD, THE MYTH OF SCIENCE AND LONELINESS

Summary/Abstract: This text discusses Béla Hamvas’s specific philosophical view of Europe and its attitude to Asia, myth, science and loneliness. Béla Hamvas is one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century – he studied the European tradition, philosophy and culture, and in his works manages easily to connect the East and the West, Asia and Europe, attempting, thereby, to form an overall picture of history, culture and the relation of Europe toward the Other. He persistently traces the reasons when and how the development of humanity breaks down and enters a dead-end. In examining European traditions and cultures, he is interested in those lines that were neglected. The text analyzes how, through its history, Europe measures the rest of the world from a “cultural height”, that is, the parts that it knows and about which it formulates assessments and assumptions. The cultural influences from Asia enriched the Eastern Mediterranean, this is how “the Greek wonder” that covers all of the Mediterranean begins. Religion, philosophy and art get their first specific characteristics, even the canons that will be followed for a long time, without anyone being allowed to oppose them. Béla Hamvas is an author whose alternative worldview is yet to be examined and analyzed. In the last few years, most of his output was published, but he still remains unknown for the Hungarian and European reading public.

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