The Unifying Aspects of Cultures

SECTION:

Narrations in Literature and in Writing History

Molnár András (Universität ELTE, Budapest)
CultuREplacement – common(re)place(ment)
Canon, medium and intertextuality in language as action

The notion of culture is usually understood as some kind of concrete matter. The culture of some kind of nation, person or city (etc.), namely something in definite association with notions marking verges that provide it with identity, even if the particular culture isn’t self identical with itself. However, my presentation is dealing with the topic not from the angle of this concrete matter, but it is driving the attention to the other side of the coin. Taking the etymon of culture (colere) into consideration, it is recognized as (conclusion of) occurence, being the marker of a series of (language as) action creating identity, which I aim to represent by Wilhelm von Humboldt’s works and their history of recepcion. The (conclusion of) occurence is in the focus, through the process of which we find the redundant remains of existence in the labyrinth of memory, as well as commonness and poesy.

THE UNIFYING ASPECTS OF CULTURES