Time, Moment, Eternity: Hieroglyphs and Meditations in Yakov Druskin’s Philosophy
A. Menshikov
Changing Societies & Personalities 2021 DOI: 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.132 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | Argues that interwar philosophical interest in temporality as an existential problem generated projects, including those of Bergson, Husserl, and Rosenzweig, aimed at revising how philosophy is done. The author contends that Yakov Druskin addressed temporality originally by combining philosophical reflection on time with methods such as meditation and "hieroglyphs", which aim at "transforming rather than informing" and at lingering in a "certain equilibrium with a minor error". |
Abstract
In this article, the author explores the interest of the interwar intellectuals in “time, death, God”. This focus on temporality as an existential problem engendered some major philosophical projects, which aimed at complete revision of how philosophy should be done, including Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Franz Rosenzweig. The main part outlines a philosophical project of Yakov Druskin who addressed the problem of temporality in a highly original manner. Druskin combined philosophical reflection on time in its existential meaning with the search for intellectual methods and linguistic techniques to transcend our ordinary reality. Among these methods, in Druskin’s works present at least two major modes—meditation and “hieroglyphs”—can be identified. Both methods, however, aim at “transforming rather than informing” and at enabling us to linger in a “certain equilibrium with a minor error”.
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