Ontic Constructs of the Oscillation of the Self in some Poems of Attila József Cover Image

Az én oszcillációjának ontikus konstrukciói József Attila néhány költeményében
Ontic Constructs of the Oscillation of the Self in some Poems of Attila József

Author(s): István Lakatos
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: self-creative process; ontic; self-construct; hopelessness; fundamental ontology; cultivation; thrown into being; poiesis; apostrophe; poeticness; experience of truth; the nothing

Summary/Abstract: The present study chose as its subject some of the poems of Attila József – from among the “best known” ones – in an attempt to follow, truly disclosing them along the line of Heidegger’s philosophy, how man recognizes the possibilities (or challenges) of his own being in the self-creative process, and what are the answers he fi nds or creates in the midst of the articulation of his questions. The research wishes to bring together pieces of mosaic, apparently dispersed at a fi rst approach, which, at the very depth of things, still explain and “complete” each other. The fi rst part of the analysis investigates how the poem entitled The seventh approaches the various challenges of the construction of the I, of “myself”, and how it recognizes it as an invitation for the I-self as an individual. In the second part the paper analyzes fragments of poems – stanza 12 of Eszmélet (Consciousness) and some fragments of Winter’s night – which articulate the indeed also being-like (and not, for instance, “ethical”) ways of the creation of the I (myself). The last part shows how hopelessness – or, more precisely: the rejection of the usual, empty and weightless “hope” Without hope becomes ontologically the determinant of the possibility of being-creative authenticity along its insightful and clarifying acts fi lled with anxiety and fear.

  • Issue Year: LXXV/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 63-76
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Hungarian