Kalba ir kultūra

Abstract

The author analyses the role of the language in culture from the perspective of existential phenomenology. He emphasises the linguistic character of existence and analyses poiesis as the creation of the living world. According to the author, a phenomenon is real as a named thing, i.e. as included in our existential whole. The status of named divine reality is investigated, and a sketch of horizontal theologics is presented. The author asks what place tragic events take in our life if we include them in the existential whole. He tries to resolve the conflict of language and existence with antique paradigms (Aristotle, Plato) and the ideas of hermeneutical phenomenology (Heidegger, Gadamer). The connotations between theologics, poetics, and tragedy help to model the phenomenology of culture as the creation of a living whole.