Universal Journal of Physics and Application Vol. 13(1), pp. 1 - 7
DOI: 10.13189/ujpa.2019.130101
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Paradigm of Light in Lucian Blaga's Outlook: A Semiotic Approach

Coculiana Acăr ^*
Faculty of Philosophy and Socio-Political Sciences, University of Iași, Romania

ABSTRACT

In the Blagian philosophic and literary creation there are a multivalent perspectives of light, symbolically connected to: the ontological / physical significance of the light-sign, cosmologically assumed; the gnoseological function ("minus" and "plus knowledge" / enlightment, respectively paradisiac-logical and luciferic-poetic cognition); the (pr)axiological / psycho-emotional perspective, where the "erotic-love" significance prevails through the empirical symbolism of burning. Connecting all these symbolic hypostases, the (Complex) Light passes through a double metamorphic circuit, namely: God (Great Anonimus) / Sacred Light – cosmos / physic light – human / bio-phycho-light – super-human / noesic light – God. In terms of Blaga, the terrestrial horizon is no longer the limit where physical visibility ceases, but the whole complexity where the metaphysical / spiritual vision extends, because, for the philosopher-poet, the world is not only a cognoscible reality in its immediate realm, but also a world of signs, of symbols that reveal the original faces of the universe. In synthesis, the paper tries to configure a transdisciplinary vision of the whole Blagian creation, having as its "core nucleus" the semiotic paradigm of LIGHT-SIGN, for which the Poems of the Light are standing as a defining measure.

KEYWORDS
Light, Ontos & Logos, Magic, Eros & Thanatos, Knowledge & Living

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[1] Coculiana Acăr , "Paradigm of Light in Lucian Blaga's Outlook: A Semiotic Approach," Universal Journal of Physics and Application, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1 - 7, 2019. DOI: 10.13189/ujpa.2019.130101.

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Coculiana Acăr (2019). Paradigm of Light in Lucian Blaga's Outlook: A Semiotic Approach. Universal Journal of Physics and Application, 13(1), 1 - 7. DOI: 10.13189/ujpa.2019.130101.