Avanesov S. A.
DOI: 10.32691/2410-0935-2018-13-44-65
Information about author:
Sergey S. Avanesov , Professor, Department of Theory, History and Philosophy of Culture, Novgorod University named Yaroslav the Wise, Russia. Doctor of Philosophy, Professor”.
E-mail: iskiteam [at] yandex.ru (iskiteam[at]yandex[dot]ru)
Abstract. In this article, I begin to study the concept of the “path” as an image of a person’s autobiography. I rely on the initial thesis that the existence of man is open. Therefore, personal life should be viewed not as a development of the always existing “human essence”, but as self-creation, as an individual story, as a biography created by one’s own intentions and efforts. Space (both physical and cultural) is one of the necessary contexts for such an autobiography. Building its life, a person moves both in his inner world and in the environment, leaving in it his “trace”, his “route”, his “map”– the spatial projections of his personal transformations. The person is distinguished by the ability to organize this movement, to turn it from chaotic into meaningful. Such a meaningfulness of the biographical trajectory is established with the help of those values that a person believes as his existential reference points and which a person places outside himself. These landmarks are the basic “navigation” points, thanks to which a person, in the course of his personal formation, is able to go beyond the limits of his own existential certainty, is able to become different. Thus, there is a correlation between geography as a movement in the physical space and a biography as a process of internal “growth”. I here consider this correlation on an example of the plot of an epic poem about Gilgamesh.
Keywords : anthropology, person, biography, autobiography, personal history, path of life, route, self-creation, epic poem, Gilgamesh.
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