The Movement of Truth. On the Revealing of Poetry

Phainomena

Michał Wieczorek¹ 

[1] Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland;

关键词: hermeneutics;    poetry;    truth;    understanding;   

DOI  :  10.32022/PHI29.2020.114-115.6

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The paper discusses the poetic function of language in light of hermeneutics. It argues that the everyday referential way of using the language, in which self-contained terms and concepts stand for something other than themselves, is not sufficient to bear witness to the richness of human experience, and, therefore, contrasts it with poetry. Drawing mainly from the thought of Martin Heidegger, it stresses the revealing aspect of poetry and shows how poetry’s expressive character brings forth what is not called into presence by the everyday language. It argues that the poetic mode of speaking is the most natural and primordial way of using language and that its main significance lies in its allowing for the movement between what is concealed and unconcealed to happen. As such, poetry is what allows the human being to assume its natural disposition, that is, the hermeneutic openness towards interpreting and understanding the world.

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