Imaging speech Review of Arvydas’s Šliogeris’s words and images book „Archipelagoes of Melancholy“ Cover Image

Įvaizdijant žodį Arvydo Šliogerio žodžių ir vaizdų knygos Melancholijos archipelagai recenzija
Imaging speech Review of Arvydas’s Šliogeris’s words and images book „Archipelagoes of Melancholy“

Author(s): Arvydas Šliogeris
Subject(s): Review, Existentialism, Book-Review, Phenomenology, Ontology
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: philotopy; photosophy; archipelago; Nihil; Pressence; Transcendence; topophily;

Summary/Abstract: The review of: “Archipelagoes of Melancholy / Melancholijos archipelagai: Žodžiai ir vaizdai” by Arvydas Šliogeris; Vilnius: Apostrofa/Publicum, 2009. – 168 p. ISBN 978-9955-605-54-6 „Archipelagoes of Melancholy“ is one of newest books by Lithuania’s most prominent and original contemporary philosopher, Arvydas’s Šliogeris’s (b. 1944). This is a book of images (philosopher’s photos) and texts. In this book there are more of Presence and Transcendence than of Nihil, negation. While reading „Archipelagoes of Melancholy“, we can notice, that A. Šliogeris shifts a little bit moves from philosophical existentialism and approaches a phenomenological and experiential notion. But all of A. Šliogeris’ publications have one unifying feature – an especially creative and dynamic philosophical thought.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 63
  • Page Range: 213-222
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Lithuanian