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Понятие за символ у Алексей Лосев
The Concept of Symbol in Aleksey Losev

Author(s): Galin Penev
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Special Branches of Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: symbol; dialectics; philosophy of name; model; ipseitas;

Summary/Abstract: The article considers different plans of symbolic cognition and being, examined in Losev’s earliest works. Throughout all of Losev`s works, myth is consistently established as a symbolic representation of being. Every usual thing becomes a symbol of an absolute individuality when it takes part in a dialectics of part and whole. This dialectics is just a skeleton of the intuitively grasped body of the vital being of the symbol. The genuine symbol overcomes the decomposing antinomies and restores the unity between image and word, present and absence.

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 57-63
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English, Bulgarian