Open AccessPractical Rhythm and Time Projection
Author(s) -
István Berszán
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
hungarian studies yearbook
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2668-7542
DOI - 10.2478/hsy-2019-0003
Subject(s) - allegory , rhetorical question , rhythm , spacetime , rhetoric , argumentation theory , saint , projection (relational algebra) , epistemology , literature , philosophy , aesthetics , art , computer science , art history , linguistics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
In his article “Practical Rhythm and Time Projection”, István Berszán presents first a poetic experiment of Wordsworth in order to answer the question how to enter the rhythm of a happening. The argumentation is based on the assumption that Plato’s “allegory” of the cave is an experiment rather than a rhetorical construction and invokes contemporary string theory to show that everything that happens has its kinetic space as a special complementary rhythmic dimension. A second example reveals how Alain Badiou projects Saint Paul’s teaching and practice to the kinetic space of militant leftist struggle. The article concludes that instead of understanding allegory as a replacement based on similarity in the same rhetoric space, we have to take into consideration – or learn how to take into consideration – the multiple rhythmic dimensions of compared happenings.