NARRATIVE OF THE HOME IN THE CULTURE OF SEDENTISM AND NOMADISM

Abstract

The aim of the study is the discovery of nomad properties in the narrative that semantically reflects stativity and permanence. The narrative «Home» is taken as such a concept. The paper reveals the content of the notion «Home» in sedentary culture. The author describes and analyses the processes of transformation of the narrative «Home» during the transition from modernity culture to the situation of postmodernity, accompanied by the loss of traditional functions of the Home. We study the notions of «Home» in existential and psychoanalytic philosophy. The concept of «Home» in the mythology and folklore of the national culture is taken into account. The author discusses the acquisition of new properties by the «Home» in postmodern, related to mobility and instability, singularity. Postmodern «Home» is a point of a route, which is contrary to the sedentary paradigm, not a place of peace and relaxation, but rather the moment of formation, the transition from the finite to the infinite. The main attention in the paper is given to the detecting nomadism in the ontological essence of the Home. The research results can be used in the study of the ontological, anthropological components of postmodern situation.