منیره طلیعه بخش

One of the significant concepts that Kundera, a Czech-French novelist, criticizes in the novel is the concept of Kitch. Kitch is all that is outward and flashy, based on the form and the image, and refers to non-thought ideas and non-genuine thoughts but prevalent. According to its general character about imagology (dominance of the demonstrative, propagandistic, and suggestive), Kitch rejects any strange, alien, and unknown phenomena. The novel's mission is to resist and defend something that Kitsh denies as an unknown and the abject, according to Julia Kristeva's thought. In the present article, it has been shown through the phenomenology method that the abject closely overlaps with Heidegger's Being, and the novel Immortality revolves around the heterogeneous subject of Agnes and her ontological strangeness in the world based on kitsch. Agnes is an isolated subject and does not belong to the world around her. Her reflections are explained in three axes: criticism of kitsch society, criticism of imagology, looking for the way of Being, and transgression of symbolic matters. As a result, the novel Immortality ironically prevents forgetting and rejecting Being due to the characteristic of representing Being and the abject.

One of Mowlavi's essential concerns in Mathnawi is the conditions of obtaining knowledge, along with the limitations and obstacles that hinder its realization. His attention to the problem of cognition and its multiple dimensions brings his opinions close to the border of modern thinking about metacognitive knowledge. The problem of cognition is such a severe issue for Rumi that every narrative and story is involved in one of the problems of cognition and its complexities. This article employs a descriptive-analytical method that metacognitive knowledge, defined as cognitive supervision, is one of the essential principles of Mowlavi's Mathnawi. Numerous metacognitive foundations and functions can be traced in Mathnawi. In this article, two metacognitive foundations, "schema" and "personal motivation system," and two functions, "supervision of the cognitive process" and "awareness of the cognitive situation," are examined. It is taken and shown that Mowlavi's Mathnawi is a work with metacognitive and cognitive value due to its inclusion of monitoring, evaluation, and mental pathology. This awareness of the conditions of obtaining knowledge leads Mowlavi to criticize reductionist and mono-structural knowledge.

The Negative Theology of “Waqfih” in Al-Niffari’s Al-Kitāb al-Mawāqif
 
 
Mystics' views on the critique of knowledge is a subject that has been less addressed so far. In essence, it seems that critique of knowledge by those who are mystics, that is, are known to have knowledge, to be a contradiction. But this contradiction leads us to reflect on the true nature and structure of knowledge in the eyes of mystics. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Jabbar ibn al-Hasan Al-Niffari in his book, Al-Kitāb al-Mawāqif (The Book of Standings) talks about seventy-seven ‘mawqif’ (standings/stayings) in the process of the mystic's spiritual journey. They do not have a definite order, but they follow a pattern of structure and content. Another term is ‘waqfih’ that refers to a period of contemplation in which the mystic becomes aware of his position. The structure of al-Kitāb al-Mawāqif is based on the negative theology; all of the book is about negation of the position of ‘waqfih’, and in the most positions, the author ends his speech with negative words. The aim of present article is to consider the role of ‘waqfih’ and the elements of the negative theology in the thoughts of Al-Niffari. The research is done from three perspective: existential, epistemological and linguistic by using an analytical-comparative method. The results indicate that Al-Niffari in his book, before Ibn Arabi, have ontologically provided the basis for attention to the Divine essence and the concept of non-existence. According to Al-Niffari, the reality of knowledge is “wise ignorance” and astonishment, and his mute and contradictory language refers to his negative speech.

The current reading of Cartesian subject has taken it as a turning point in human "self-fundamentalism". An essential part of twentieth-century philosophy, following Heidegger, defined his highest effort a critique of Cartesian subjectivity, as if the Cartesian subject had been the main factor diverting the path of philosophy from considering being qua being. Many critics have found the crisis of modernity a result of subject self-fundamentalism, insofar as it has distorted not only philosophy but humanity as well. While presenting Heidegger's critiques of the Cartesian subject and those by philosophers influenced by Heidegger, this paper attempts to return to the modality of Cartesian subject construction and to understand Cartesian reflection ratios with potentiality, duality, and self-fundamentalism. It also shows that we, given the fundamental lack of Cartesian subject, cannot make such a criticism of Descartes' subject' fact. Among this philosophers, there have been thinkers who have a different reading from the Cartesian subject, one that does not lead subject to forgetfulness of being, humanity's self-fundamentalism crisis, and so on. This paper, while digging out the concept of the subject in Greece and its Hellenic and mystical gene, provides readings contrast to the usual Cartesian ones and shows that the Cartesian subject is, in fact, the void that allows truths to be tested.

The first trace of the critique of objective truth and the “present-at-hand” tradition can be found in Sufism and Mysticism. Mystics emphasize the outstanding role of uncovering and intuition which implies the desire to leave mediators in order to achieve the truth and reflects their creative approach toward tradition, which, while rooted in tradition, is seen as revival. They considered the truth of their approach to tradition as a Naghd/critique. Naghd, in common terms, is simply translated as the assessment of something. However, in the mystical tradition, it is prior to assessment and refers to calling something that is “ready to hand” existence. Today, the way through this tradition is being inquired about and though about is groundless. Groundlessness is the indicator of the dichotomy of tradition and modernity, whereas the original foundation through the experience of a moment of "negation" is an abyss/ the nothing foundation. This article will begin with two fundamental theoretical approaches in Western thought to understand the foundations of the mystic approach to tradition. The first approach is "Romantic Hermeneutics, Historicism, Fundamentalism, and Traditionalism," which comprehends tradition as it has been spent, and the second approach with titles such as "philosophical hermeneutics, historicity and traditionality" considers tradition as something present now. This article proves that both tradition and modernity adopt the same approach while the second approach implies a different perception of the foundation / beginning, time and existence.

Contrary to the prevalent and dominant notion which considers mystical texts without any cognitive and philosophical topics, cognitive propositions and foundations can be seen profusely in mystical texts, specifically in Mowlavi's couplet-poem. Mowlavi is aware of the role of schemas, mentality and situations in shaping human cognition (his world is as much as his vision). Although this was Existentialism that initially conceptualized existential experiences, since human existed, he has found himself involved with these situations. Thinkers such as Mowlavi have spoken of these existential experiences. From Rumi's point of view, our knowledge of ourselves and of the world are based on credits that we consider to be decisive and dogmatic, but we find in some situations that they are not so reliable. To show the incredibility of cognition and the conditional mentalities, he frequently placed his storie's characters in a brittle, tensional, and boundary situation to made their inaccurate and negative forms which seemed evident, natural and credible deconstructed and changed with an examination of existential experiences. In these boundary situations (in the words of Jaspers) and the experience of their anxiety, credible support and formal stereotypes collapse and the possibility of new experiences and perspectives, such as the possibility of experiencing beyond limits, namely, transcendence and being in itself (An-sich-sein), is shaped.

Motifs and mythical thoughts through human history go into a variety of formats to survive and are reconstructed, recreated and reproduced in ideas and different worlds. One of these realms and worlds is a mystical world. Motifs and common points of the world of myth and mysticism in foundations of knowledge,interpretability, sacred time and space, symbolic language stem the possibility of convergence,communication and interaction between these two worlds.
The present article, based on Attar's narration in Tazkirat al- Awliya, explains how Rabai after passing through the stages of the heroicsecret school (Unusual birthday, rite of passage/ Captivity, slavery and minstreland hero's Journey / Journey to the Kaaba) is raised as the goddess and Great Mother's womb. Rabaidisplayed dual and contradictory character in the ancient pattern of her mother goddess and female dutifulness. She is a compilation of virginity and fertile. Rabai is both the virgin, and the mother (making a theme for spiritual birth) big men such as Hassan Basri, al-Hallaj. She isalsoboth minstreland mystic, that poured the love on the body of the ascetic mysticism in an expression of all her feminine sides. Rabia in all lenity and kindness, is strongly fearsome and notorious (terrible, kind mother in the myth). After passing the ritual of initiation, in moving toward the center(Kaaba) and towardachieving equilibrium, evolution and unity, Rabaiherself became a center for the mystics of her time.