Conceptualising Discontinuity: Pavel Florenskii’s Preryvnost’ as a Universal Paradigm of Knowledge

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, SLAVIC RUSSIAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ruslit.2022.03.004
Andrea Oppo
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Discontinuity (preryvnost’ / прерывность) is a pivotal concept in Pavel Florenskii’s philosophy and theory of knowledge. He utilises it in many fields and subjects: mathematics, physics, semiotics, aesthetics, theology, and literature. Florenskii’s universe is a “discontinuous double” in which an earthly and natural state of things is opposed to an upper-world that is ruled by different geometrical laws and is knowable only by abstraction. In between there is always a threshold (a symbol, an “icon”) that connects the two. The general intent of this article is, on the one hand, to give an indication of the main directions of the concept of discontinuity within Florenskii’s works and, on the other hand, to highlight its relevance for a “philosophy of culture” and for a “philosophy of the symbolic forms”, but also – as Florenskii puts it – for a specific understanding of the “Russian mind”. The article also devotes a section to the literary aspects of Florenskii’s concept of discontinuity (less explored by Florenskii scholarship and perhaps by the author himself), which involve among other things a reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and an original and ambitious attempt of interpreting physical space in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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概念化的不连续性:帕维尔·弗洛伦斯基的先验作为一种普遍的知识范式
不连续(preryvnost ' / прерывность)是帕维尔·弗洛伦斯基的哲学和知识理论中的一个关键概念。他在数学、物理、符号学、美学、神学和文学等许多领域和学科中都使用了它。弗洛伦斯基的宇宙是一个“不连续的双重世界”,在这个世界里,世俗和自然的事物状态与上层世界相对立,上层世界受不同的几何法则支配,只能通过抽象来认识。在两者之间总是有一个界限(一个符号,一个“图标”)将两者连接起来。这篇文章的总体意图是,一方面,给出弗洛伦斯基作品中不连续性概念的主要方向的指示,另一方面,强调其与“文化哲学”和“象征形式哲学”的相关性,而且-正如弗洛伦斯基所说-对于“俄罗斯心灵”的具体理解。这篇文章还专门用了一节来讨论弗洛伦斯基的不连续概念的文学方面(弗洛伦斯基的学术研究较少,也许是作者本人),其中包括对莎士比亚《哈姆雷特》的阅读,以及对但丁《神曲》中物理空间的原创和雄心勃勃的解释。
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