Transcendental Homelessness: Depression and Romanticism in Sadegh Hedayat
Subject Areas : Research in Theoritical Politics
Ali
Khalandi
1
(Tarbiat Modares University)
Hatam
Ghaderi
2
(Tarbiat Modares University)
Keywords: Transcendental homelessness, Sadeq Hedayat, Depression, Romanticism, Hermeneutics,
Abstract :
Transcendental homelessness implies a situation in which collapses human’s connectedness with the meaningful resources, which give meaning to the human existence and being. Human being is the child of a certain time/space, and any event which disturbs the continuum will also disturb subjectivity. Whenever the state of time/space order gets into crisis and meaningful transcendental resources become inaccessible to human, he suffers from transcendental homelessness. The most important consequences of transcendental homelessness are depression and romanticism. If human being lose his/her roots in time/place and find it alienated with himself/herself, then get depressed; For the purpose of making it tolerable, he/she creates a subjective world which can satisfy him/her. Romanticism is the very consequences of that subjective world. Sadeq Hedayat, one of the most important writers in our contemporary history, based upon our propositions in this article, has suffered from transcendental homelessness.
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