A Model for Reading Comedy Using Hegel’s Concept of SelfConsciousness

Nazım Sarıkaya

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A Model for Reading Comedy Using Hegel’s Concept of SelfConsciousness

Authors:

Nazım Sarıkaya

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Journal:

Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi Issue 36, pp.63-90

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001292492

pISSN:

1303-8605

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 This study develops a dramaturgical model for reading comedy texts based on the concept of self-consciousness. After explaining the acceptance of consciousness as expressed in Hegels 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit, the subject is then shown to also an object by adapting it to character production. Reading Aristophanes 422 BC The Wasps and Menanders 316 BC Dyskolos The Grouch involves arriving at the knowledge of the body and the object through the characters in the first step, at sociality and the subjects self-knowledge in the second step, and at self-consciousness and the subject-object identity in the third step. The study developed the self-consciousness approach with the aim of establishing a dialectical relationship among the author, the reader, and the text. One can rise to a higher level of consciousness through the awareness of the self-forms that are represented in the texts through the other.

 This study develops a dramaturgical model for reading comedy texts based on the concept of self-consciousness. After explaining the acceptance of consciousness as expressed in Hegels 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit, the subject is then shown to also an object by adapting it to character production. Reading Aristophanes 422 BC The Wasps and Menanders 316 BC Dyskolos The Grouch involves arriving at the knowledge of the body and the object through the characters in the first step, at sociality and the subjects self-knowledge in the second step, and at self-consciousness and the subject-object identity in the third step. The study developed the self-consciousness approach with the aim of establishing a dialectical relationship among the author, the reader, and the text. One can rise to a higher level of consciousness through the awareness of the self-forms that are represented in the texts through the other.

 This study develops a dramaturgical model for reading comedy texts based on the concept of self-consciousness. After explaining the acceptance of consciousness as expressed in Hegels 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit, the subject is then shown to also an object by adapting it to character production. Reading Aristophanes 422 BC The Wasps and Menanders 316 BC Dyskolos The Grouch involves arriving at the knowledge of the body and the object through the characters in the first step, at sociality and the subjects self-knowledge in the second step, and at self-consciousness and the subject-object identity in the third step. The study developed the self-consciousness approach with the aim of establishing a dialectical relationship among the author, the reader, and the text. One can rise to a higher level of consciousness through the awareness of the self-forms that are represented in the texts through the other.

 Hegelin yaklaşımıyla kendilik bilinci, insanın bedensel ve toplumsal bir bilinç varlığı olduğuna dair öz farkındalık biçiminde ifade edilebilir. Hegele göre insan, kendilik bilincini yükseltebilmek ve nesnel olan öznelliğine ulaşabilmek için sanat, din, siyaset gibi alanlar üzerinden kendisini açığa çıkarmaktadır. Bu çalışmada ise kendilik bilinci kavramından yola çıkarak komedi metinleri özelinde bir dramaturjik model geliştirilmektedir. Tinin Fenomenolojisinde ifade edilen bilinç kabulü açıklandıktan sonra karakter üretimine uyarlanarak öznenin aynı zamanda nesne olduğu gösterilmektedir. Aristophanesin Eşekarıları ve Menandrosun Huysuz Adamına yönelik okumanın ilk adımında karakterler üzerinden bedensellik ve nesnenin bilgisine, ikinci adımında toplumsallık ve öznenin kendini bilmesine, üçüncü adımda ise kendilik bilinciyle özne nesne özdeşliğine ulaşılmaktadır. Çalışmada geliştirilen kendilik bilinci yaklaşımıyla yazar, okur, metin arasında diyalektik bir ilişki kurulması amaçlanmaktadır. Metinlerde temsil edilen kendilik biçimlerinin başkası dolayımıyla farkına varılmasıyla birlikte daha yüksek bir bilinç düzeyine yükselebilmek mümkündür. Komedi karakteriyle birlikte kendi varlığına da gülebilen okur ve yazar, öznenesne özdeşliğinde bir araya gelmektedir.

Article Details

A Model for Reading Comedy Using Hegel’s Concept of SelfConsciousness

Authors:

Nazım Sarıkaya

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Journal:

Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi Issue 36, pp.63-90

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001292492

pISSN:

1303-8605

Hegel

Self-Consciousness

Dramaturgy

Aristophanes

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Kendilik Bilinci

Dramaturji

Aristophanes

Menandros

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Article Details

Authors: Nazım Sarıkaya

Publisher: Istanbul University

Main Topics: Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Journal: Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi Issue 36, pp.63-90

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 6/2023

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2001292492

pISSN: 1303-8605

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Authors:

Nazım Sarıkaya

Publisher:

Istanbul University

Main Topics:

Uygulamalı Tiyatro

Journal:

Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi Issue 36, pp.63-90

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001292492

pISSN:

1303-8605