A NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE SUBJECT AND AN APOCALYPSE OF THE APOCALYPSE OR THE STORY hAS LOST ITS END

Abstract

Postmodern destruction of the narrative structure of Grand Style and its tendency to overcome an epochal thought escalates in an attempt to annihilate the position of the subject which is established in the constitution of a linear relation between the beginning and the end, birth and death. This paper correspondingly demonstrates that (post)modernity is conditioned by an existentially undeniable presence of the subject and a (dis)continuity of its narrative reconstitution within a desire for a new beginning. An investigation of the status of a relation between postmodernity and modernity is conceived here in reference to Derrida’s, Fouceault’s, Levinas’ and Riceour’s perspectives, and is an attempt to understand the condition of transference and the meaning of the story about the nature of the end. In this attempt the following themes are exposed: a. Truth, morality and understanding the relation between love, pain and death; b. Humanism as a synthesis of (the)formal logic and ethics, modernity as moral-aesthetical anthropology; c. Linear structure of time, history and the absence of climax; d. Postmodernity and ontological neutralisation of (a drama of) the subject; e. Universality, totality and neutrality, tonality, speech and style; f. Apocalypse and eschatology, the final judgment, intonation and revival of the problem of the end; g. Metaphysical will for non-truth. Beauty and mystery as the essence of truth; h. The subject and its narrative reconstitution. The subject and plot making; i. The subject, e revelation of the possibility of living. An apocalypse of the apocalypse and the story which has lost its end…