Atopy (philosophy)
( "Not assign " Greek ατοπία ATOPIA " placelessness ", " highly original " ) Atopy refers to the ineffability and Unverortbarkeit of rare experiencer, the out Upscale, of the original in the best sense. Atopy is either understood as an ethos, a - to themselves or others - observable ( experience ) quality, or as an ideal (eg in the cult of the genius of the Romantic era ).
Atopy as an ethical determination in Plato
The original use of the word is found in Plato's Symposium, in which he referred to Socrates as Atopos. Socrates is invited to the victory party of Agathon, but immerses himself in a conversation with Agathon's neighbors:
" Socrates has declined again and stands in the front door of a neighboring house and does not want to come in despite my invitation (...) Because this is such a custom, which he has in itself. Sometimes he goes away, where it is currently true, and will stop. "
Atopos means in this context that Socrates behaves inappropriately and for all other in unexpected ways ie that he is the usual social ethos escapes ( " this is so his custom" ). The Atopos is indeed part of society, but does not fit 'in', ie he has no determinable position and behaves in a way that you would call today ' maladjusted '.
Atopy as quality of experience
The loving person, no matter what his reverence and Entflammtheit directed, whether a loved one, a mystical understood God or an idol, shows, unless it not just " infatuation " but " emotion " is unable to "object " set his love on properties, explains the " obscure Object of Desire " for unique and incomparable.
The assignment of properties ( attribution ) from the mundane everyday world appeared to seriously lovers as a betrayal ( sacrilege ) to the innate love itself this has no described insistent and analyzed as Roland Barthes in his famous essay collection " fragments of a language of love " from the year 1977. Yet strictly speaking, it is an everyday phenomenon all " mere mortals " that parents describe, although the relationship with their children, talk nicely or can curse, however, the depth of their feelings to their own offspring as atopic, ie recognize indescribable.
Therefore, the natural religion speaks of "Tao ", the " Original " and " undivided ", similar to the mystique, the ontological philosophy and theology speaks of " fullness of being ". The more sensual, world facing seal calls it " the horn of plenty " or prosaic " inspiration ". The psychological science researches there under the key concept of creativity, or more specifically as "the flow" ( flow experience ).
Where now the atopy is writable, it is non-locatable. Here we will look at an anarchy of the forms of experience that expands consistently Barthes in his lectures on the neuter (1979 ) to a general paradigm criticism. The neuter is the discursive counterpart of love, because it sets the structuralist dichotomy of terms and thus their external polemic overridden. R. Koselleck writes in regard to the historical sciences that historians must be atopoi when she refereed impartially because on state history. It's in the atopy is not exclusively on the ( impossible) assignment of properties (eg lovers ), but also to the impossible position of the judge, writer, etc. In this respect, experience and ethic aspects of atopy are closely interwoven.
Occurrence
Most adults atopy familiar as the " rose-colored glasses " of those phases of falling in love, art lovers as the genius and the auratic, readers as the " Thou shalt not make any graven image " in Max Frisch's "silent " that the image of God "Ten commandments " refers back, or Brecht's" The stories of Mr. Keuner ". Atopy as an experience quality experiences itself in moments of bewilderment, for example, at Eklats and generally in situations that you know at first what to do that will make a ' speechless '. A situation is atopic, if you can not place.