Colloquia intima: филозофија и поезија у неоплатонској еротологији Анице Савић Ребац и Симоне Вејлv
NEOPLATONIST EROTOLOGY AND ETHICS IN THE POETRY OF ANICA SAVIĆ REBAC AND SIMONE WEIL

Summary/Abstract: The primary focus of the research, which we will approach from a comparatist perspective, is the poetry of the Serbian literary historian and philosopher Anica Savić Rebac, published in her poetry collection Evenings by the Sea (1929), and that of the French philosopher Simone Weil, published posthumously. A particular aim of the research is the relationship that their poetry, within the framework of their complete oeuvre, establishes with respect to the viewpoints on the Zeitgeist, which are implicitly or explicitly present in the philosophical work of Simone Weil, and respectively, in the scholarly work of Anica Savić Rebac. The cultural context in which the aforementioned texts originated will be of manifold importance. On the one hand, we will contextualize the poetic experience of Anica Savić Rebac and Simone Weil within the poetic principles of literary figures significant to the trajectory of their development. Respectively, we are referring to Laza Kostić and Paul Valéry, and in that context, we will also attempt to position them in relation to the modernist and avant-garde literary paradigm in terms of poetics. The often fragmentary nature of the philosophical, aesthetic, and historical viewpoints of the two cultural theorists, on the other hand, pertain to various epochs, primarily of Western culture, from antiquity to the 20th century and modernity. The central aspect that we take as the strongest comparative link, and on which our interpretation of the poetry of A. Savić Rebac and S. Weil will be based, is their Neoplatonic intellectual orientation, particularly with regard to the ethical and social consequences of the erotic and aesthetic viewpoints of the ancient philosopher. Of particular importance, therefore, is the philosophy of language implicit in the relationship between Eros and Logos. Within their poetic and theoretical reflections, Anica Savić Rebac and Simone Weil form a distinctive cultural and literary-historical standpoint which is offered as a response to the spiritual/cultural crisis of humanism of the interwar period.

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