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The idea of Encyclopedism an Philosophical Thinking
Ljerka Schiffler
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The background behind the idea of encyclopedism, as it can be followed by its relationship towards philosophical thinking through certain aspects and tendencies and in its promoters is shown not only as their sum but as a cohesion: encyclopedic culture and the search for wisdom on which a number of encyclopedists (those who started encyclopedias) have left writings, as have those from other callings - scholars, philosophers, writers of both local and European cultural history and philosophy.
The genesis of the idea of encyclopedism can be followed from the appearance of the lucidars, almanacs to those who are specialized and general types, depending on the methods and results of the science about man and society, about the system of knowledge. New knowledge (material and ideal) for the whole of human experience and the phenomenon of new disciplines (intersciences) in the more recent age, have changed the »physiognomy « of an idea and the nature of its relations through the title of the designated. Continuing its existence, encyclopedic works contribute to the formation of common experience, its preservation as well as the preservation of cultural treasures. This is aided by the emergence of great encyclopedic works in the late 19th and early 20th century such as encyclopedias of art, multi-volume lexicons (archaeology, liturgy, artists and others, major syntheses and specialized publications.
A sequence of personalities from Humanism on this territory within the framework of a dialogue with the European cultural circle, encyclopedists, testify through their writings to the proportions of our presence and interest with he idea of encyclopedism. In character and purpose, encyclopedic works can also be those which are not strictly such (Crijević's Dubrovačka biblioteka [The Dubrovnik Library], Petrić's Pjesničke dekade [Poetic Decades] od Nova sveopća filozofija [New Universal Philosophy], etc.) for example geographic and historical works, biographical, poetic and philosophical.
The paradox of modern encyclopedism, something unknown to the traditional notion of encyclopedism, penetrates into the very substance of the encyclopedic, questioning its traditional content in the name of a pluralism of ideas and openness of structure. The speech of encyclopedists starts from the terms of a free circulation of meanings, combinatorics and leaves as necessary the very character of uncertainty. With this, as at the other end of an arch, those concepts are connected into a circle which joins the undertakings of traditional encyclopedism (such as Marulić's philosophical-ethical collection or Vlačić's Ključ ([Key] as a type of specialized encyclopedia) and modern specialized types of encyclopedia with which the purpose is to become »a compendium of memory and a reminder for historical experiences, while at the same time a directional sign for the future« (from the preface to the Enciklopedija Jugoslavije [Yugoslav Encyclopedia], The concept and program standpoint remains a consistent basis, in both that and this case, concretely in the macro- and micropedic, informative and formative, remaining an image and expression of the totality of world reality, of how man as creator of history has left it as a trace of his self.
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Hrčak ID:
84892
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Datum izdavanja:
7.12.1987.
Posjeta: 1.647 *