Event and Milieu :: Language Sociology Essays

Event and MilieuABSTRACT I consider how the notion of progeny is used in much(prenominal) authorised branches of twentieth-century thought as relativity, quantum mechanics, Marxist sociology and psychoanalysis. I show that in severally case there is the same concept of return as of a series of communications. It is also shown that this new concept of fifty-fiftyt corresponds to traditional concepts of diachronic numbers. I analyze the difference between the concept of event and that of fact. Since a fact presupposes an external observer it is impossible to deal with an event without macrocosm involved in it. Since a fact presupposes its permanent logical throw as a necessary condition of knowledge or so it, each condition of knowledge about an event appears to be empirical itself. I show that the division between history and prehistory has the same bottom as that between event and fact. The crucial question is how knowledge about an event is possible. The problem is that the concept of identity applicable to fact appears to be inapplicable to event. However, it appears possible to define an identity of event with an identity of media or places of communication. An open system of such places we call milieu. A language is a paradigm for it. However, I suppose that unlike the linguistic paradigm, the paradigm of milieu should refute the idea of the exceptional status of human language. The notion of event became to play a basic role in science with such revolutionary physical theories as relativity and quantum mechanics. Today the notion of event is widely applied also in synergetic. To make clear the splendour of the notion of event for sociology and psychology of 20-th century it is enough to name such a key figures of the century as Marx and Freud. The notion of social even (revolution) is essential for Marxism as well as the notion of psychological event (childs trauma) for Freuds psychoanalysis. We cannot say that the notion of event was negle cted by philosophers of our century Heidegger and Deleuze among others presented elaborated concepts of event. These concepts (which can not be analyzed here) all the same do not relate directly to science nor to knowledge in general. What is an event as a matter of knowledge remains beyond considerations of these authors. To answer to the question is the first purpose of this written report. The second purpose of the paper is to elaborate a notion of environment or milieu that as it is shown below appears to be correlative to that of event.