Symbol (w) Cutting Age
Symbol (in / of) cutting age. A ceremony of reconstructing an ape
Author(s): Kazimierz PiotrowskiSubject(s): Anthropology, Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: ceremony of reconstructing an ape; cutting age; episteme of tmesis; symbol;
Summary/Abstract: With reference to the idea of postmodern culture which uses the episteme of tmesis, I attempt to consider in its context the status of symbol. Even if the Nietzschean programme of suspension of symbolization processes is preached, the desymbolization – forced by the Cutting Age – cannot succeed. By distinguishing various types of symbolization based on the concepts of tekmérion, tekmar and eikos, I show that the postmodern cut makes a paradoxical synthesis of those types and it does not violate the identity of symbol, because symbol as a unit (sym-bállica) implies some dichotomisation. Referring to Carl Gustav Jung, who referred to a ceremony of reconstructing an ape, I find the most spectacular manifestation of this symbolization in the attempts at dehumanization and demonization of Barack Obama's person.
Journal: Idea. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
- Issue Year: 2/2016
- Issue No: XXVIII
- Page Range: 107-138
- Page Count: 32
- Language: Polish