TOPOS OF EXISTENCE FROM PLATO, THROUGH A BIBLIOCENTRIC PERFORMANCE, TO NJEGOŠ Cover Image

ТОПОС УПОСТОЈАЊА ОД ПЛАТОНА, ПРЕКО БИБЛИОЦЕНТРИЧНЕ ПРЕДСТАВЕ, ДО ЊЕГОША
TOPOS OF EXISTENCE FROM PLATO, THROUGH A BIBLIOCENTRIC PERFORMANCE, TO NJEGOŠ

Author(s): Jovana S. Anđelković
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theology and Religion, Comparative Studies of Religion, Comparative Study of Literature, Serbian Literature, Biblical studies, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: cosmology;cosmogony;Plato;soul;Beginning;Demiurge;romanticism;creative Self;Njegoš;poet

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this research is finding and analytical, semiotic-symbolic, theopoetic, and comparative analysis of cosmological and cosmogonic ideas of the origin of the world and human. The field of that analysis includes the ancient cos- mological protology presented in Plato’s Dialogues, the bibliocentric understanding of Genesis in the Six Days of St. Basil the Great and the romantic articulation of the meaning of existence. The romantic pessimistic conception of life, presented through the causes found in the universal principles of creation, is shown primar- ily in Njegoš’s song Luča mikrokozma. The primary goal of the research is to find a poetic-philosophical form of the deepest past of existence, and try to sense a causal sequence in existential development, the latter consequence of which is a pessimis- tic insight into the transience of this determination determined by the inability to know what vibrates outside lethal limitations of being. At the same time, this paper does not focus only on reviewing the historical development of thought about be- ing, but the result of the theopoetically oriented segment of research is reflected in revealing the summarization and transformation of ancient, biblical and romantic cosmological representations in Njegoš’s poetry. Hence, in individual subchapters related to Njegoš’s cosmopoiesis, his philosophical ideas on the source and cause of primordial origin, as well as on the primordial abode of God and being, and its cessa- tion whose cause is the first sin, are presented. In the last segments of the research, the artistic-philosophical concept of the renewal of the primordial embrace with the Creator through song is presented. The research concluded with the presentation of the idea of poetic action as a process of cognition of the primordial origin, and emphasizing that every theopoetically oriented writing represents a new possibility for merging with a transcendental melody. This introduced a new methodology for analyzing texts on metaphysical topics and laid the foundation for future research on the same or similar topics.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2022
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 63-83
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian