A mediális esemény ősi eszméje és a gyakorlat tipológiája
The Primordial Idea of Medial Event and the Typology of Practice

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of re-conceptualizing basic modes of human practice. This task is prompted by a consideration according to which our traditional conceptuality (originating from the Greeks) cannot account for the emergence of true praxis, and therefore, certain oblivion might have been institutionalized in our culture, already on the level of grammar. Such oblivion is revealed by pointing out that the voice systems of the primordial Indo-European languages, as opposed to those of the major occidental languages, were still able to capture an all-encompassing notion of “pure event,” and also that of a medial (event-related) agency. This yields a tripartite typology of agency that is able to account for the kind of human activity which mediates between poiesis and praxis and therefore may prepare for the latter.

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