Title of the article:

“INDIRECT SPEECH OF THE NON-MATERIAL”: HIEROGLYPH AND SYMBOL IN PHILOSOPHICAL AND AESTHETIC WORKS OF J. DRUSKIN

Author(s):

Olesya R. Temirshina

Information about the author/authors

Olesya R. Temirshina — DSc of Philology, Associate Professor, Professor, Russian State Social University, Wilhelm Pieck St. 4, bldg. 1, 129226, Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0127-6044

E-mail: o.r.temirshina@yandex.ru

Section

Philological sciences

Year

2023

Volume

Vol. 70

Pages

pp. 173–188

Received

January 19, 2023

Approved after reviewing

May 13, 2023

Date of publication

December 25, 2023

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-70-173-188

Index UDK

82.01/.09

Index BBK

83

Abstract

The paper discusses the reconstruction of Druskin's ideas about hieroglyph as a sign of special ontological category with a projection on the philosophical and religious category of the symbol developed in the philosophy of A. F. Losev and P. Florensky. A comparison of a symbol and a hieroglyph showed the dependence of the organization of their semantics on ontology. Thus, the work proves that both the symbol and the hieroglyph, being derivatives of Christological concepts, are similar in structural and functional aspects. At the structural level, symbol and hieroglyph, removing the opposition between spiritual and the material, establish relations of asymmetric identity; at the functional level, symbol and hieroglyph allow to directly embody the logic of another being in one or another material substratum. The paper argues that the concept of Druskin's hieroglyph should be considered in terms of the concept of unilateral synthetic identity, which goes back to the Christian idea of the impossible alloy and inseparability. In this context, Druskin's hieroglyph models the Logos, associated not with the ontology of the incarnation of the spirit in matter, but with the actualization of spiritual meanings in the material of a work of art.
Thus, the study showed that the hieroglyph, on the one hand, is part of Druskin's semiotic-ontological universe, and on the other hand, turns out to be a phenomenon structurally and functionally related to the symbol in its philosophical and religious interpretation.

Keywords

Symbol, Logos, Sign, Hieroglyph, Russian Philosophy, “Chinary”, Absurdity.

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