Hermeneutics of Hidden Texts: Myth, Titanism and Longevity


	Philosophy and Culture Reference: Chesnov, Ya. V. Hermeneutics of Hidden Texts: Myth, Titanism and Longevity // Philosophy and Culture. 2013. № 5. P. 680-691. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=62668 Chesnov, Ya. V. Hermeneutics of Hidden Texts: Myth, Titanism and Longevity Abstract: The article departs from the usual treatment of hermeneutics as applied to the written form and instead considers it in application to the spoken word of the popular culture. The hermeneutic tool used preferentially is the notion of genotext introduced by Julia Kristeva on the basis of Russian semiotics. The article shows the significance of the ideas put forward by Mikhail Bakhtin and Vladimir Bibler. The general definition of culture is borrowed from the works of Pavel Gurevich. The liberation of the genotext from the shell of the phenotext exposed the role of cultural sacrality and the titanic component in the self-definition of the human being. Those are the starting points of the behavioral traits in long-lived populations. The author considers the example of the Abkhaz culture which he had studied for many years. Keywords: philosophy, hermeneutics, genotext, myth, kinesics, legs, chthonism, Titans, long-lived people, Abkhaz. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Bakhtin M.M. K filosofii postupka // Filosofiya i sotsiologiya nauki i tekhniki. Ezhegodnik. 1984-1985. M., 1986. 2. Bakhtin M.M. Estetika slovesnogo tvorchestva. M., 1986. 3. Bibler V.S. Sokrat i Kratos. Enigma-dialog po pyati dialogam Platona [Elektronnyy resurs] // http://www.bibler.ru/bis_sokrat.html. 4. Bibler V. S. Mikhail Mikhaylovich Bakhtin, ili Poetika kul'tury. M., 1991. 5. Golosovker Ya. E. Logika mifa. M.: Nauka, 1987. 6. Latyshev V. Izvestiya drevnikh pisateley o Skifii i Kavkaze // Vestnik drevney istorii. 1948. № 3. 7. Levi-Stros K. Struktura mifov // Voprosy filosofii. 1970. № 7. 8. Pesn' ob Ullikummi // Luna, upavshaya s neba. M., 1977. 9. Sbornik materialov dlya opisaniya mestnostey Kavkaza. Vyp. 32. Otd. II. Tiflis, 1903. S. 163. 10. Semenov Yu.I. Forma obshchestvennoy voli v doklassovom obshchestve: tabuitet, moral' i obychnoe pravo // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 1997. № 3. 11. Tishchenko P. Bibler Vladimir Solomonovich [Elektronnyy resurs] // http://encyclopaedia.biga.ru/ enc/liberal_arts/BIBLER_VLADIMIR_SOLOMONOVICH.html. 12. Uvarova I.P. Balagan. Chast' 1. M., 2002. 13. Freyd Z. Po tu storonu printsipa naslazhdeniy. Ya i Ono // Freyd Z. Izbrannye trudy. L., 1969. T. 1. 14. Chesnov Ya.V. Mon-kkhmerskie narody // Mify i religii mira: Uchebnoe posobie. M., 2004. S. 182-186. 15. Chesnov Ya.V. Lektsii po istoricheskoy etnologii. M.: Gardarika. 1998. 16. Chesnov Ya.V. Telesnost' cheloveka: filosofsko-antropologicheskoe ponimanie. M.: IF RAN, 2007. 17. Chesnov Ya.V. Landshaft — vnutrennyaya telesnost' dolgozhitel'skoy kul'tury abkhazov // Filosofskie nauki. 2003. № 8. S. 75-83. 18. Chulkov M. Abevegeda russkikh sueveriy. M., 1776. 19. Shaumyan S.K. Applikativnaya porozhdayushchaya model' // Slovari i entsiklopedii na Akademike [Elek-tronnyy resurs] // http://enc-dic.com/enc_sovet/Applikativnaja-porozhdajuschaja-model-69903.html. 20. Yung K.-G. Libido, ego metamorfozy i simvoly. M., 1994. 21. Kristeva J. Séméiôtiké: recherches pour une sémanalyse, P.: Edition du Seuil, 1969. (Angliyskiy perevod — Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980). 22. Kristeva J. La Révolution du langage Poétique: L’avant-garde a la fin du XIXe siècle, Lautréamont et Mallarmé. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1974. (Angliyskiy perevod — Revolution in Poetic Language, New York: Columbia University Press, 1984). 23. Szekeley M.D. Gesture, Pulsion, Grain: Bartes’ Musical Semiology [Elektronnyy resurs] // // http:// www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=409

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