Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 33 No. 2, 2013.
Review article
Aesthetic Theory of Knowledge, Textual Activism, and Phenomenography in the Works of Kasim Prohić
Zlatan Delić
; University of Tuzla, Faculty of Philosophy, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
This paper contextualises works/texts of a Bosnian philosopher, professor of aesthetics Kasim Prohić (1937–1984). We will analyse several of his books: The Baldness of Speech: Phenomenology of Life Forms, To Do and to Be, The Apocrypha of Poetic Speech: The Poetry of Mak Dizdar, The Figures of Open Meaning, Prism and Mirror. We read the works of professor Prohić in the sign of its programmatic opening to “literariness of philosophy”, which is done on the trail of aesthetic experience, textual activism and the quest for a different understanding of both philosophy and art. We tend to understand the “different opinion” as a need to expand the limits of rational understanding of the contemporary philosophical discourse of aesthetic experience which is opened with the “emancipative potential of modernity” (Albrecht Wellmer). We tend to construct our own interpretative framework: firstly, we analyse some of the impressive views of Richard Rorty’s “strong” and “weak” textualism, and then we switch to reinterpreting the criticism of “deconstruction”, taken by Manfred Frank, which we, indirectly, associate with Prohić’s criticism of the constructive side in Derrida’s “deconstruction”. Finally, the notion that “there is nothing outside the text” along with Prohić’s insight into “the problematic of each conceptual decrees of the world”, we tend to associate with his advocacy of “meta-aesthetic opinion on art”, which this Bosnian philosopher ultimately recognizes in ethics.
Keywords
textual activism; literariness of philosophy; phenomenography; semiotics of life forms; critical discourse analysis; writing about writing; interpretation
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111200
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Publication date:
24.9.2013.
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