Középige és medialitás – filozófiai lehetőségek és nyelvi korlátok? = Middle Voice and Mediality – Philosophical Possibilities and Linguistic Constraints?

Lurcza, Zsuzsanna (2025) Középige és medialitás – filozófiai lehetőségek és nyelvi korlátok? = Middle Voice and Mediality – Philosophical Possibilities and Linguistic Constraints? ERDÉLYI MÚZEUM, LXXXVI (4). pp. 61-75. ISSN 1453-0961 (In Press)

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Abstract

If it is true that the medial mode of thought associated with the middle voice – which appears to be vanishing from Indo-European languages – once represented a special way of thinking and experiencing, in which the binary metaphysical structure of subject and object was not sharply divided, but rather the unfolding of happening occurred within the individual, then the significance of Benveniste’s claim becomes clear: the disappearance of the grammatology of the middle voice prompts a new grammar of action. While Nietzsche is highly skeptical of language – in which the subject is the grammatical idol – and Derrida advocates for a grammar not subordinated to the subject, for Heidegger “language is the house of Being”, and for Gadamer “understandable Being is language.” In a different approach – opposing the subject-object structure – Han and Jullien recall the Far Eastern languages through concepts such as selflessness, blandness, emptiness, indifference, and a specific notion of the middle. While in the case of the middle voice the unfolding takes place within the subject, in the discussed Far Eastern languages and modes of thought the unfolding is subjectless and selflessness.

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