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THE SYMBOLISM OF THE OLD GERMANIC CONCEPT “THING” AS AN EXPRESSION OF SACRAL CATEGORY IN THE WORK “DAS DING” BY M. HEIDEGGER. // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 4 (157). P. 9-12

The present article deals with the problem of sacral, unfathomable, and has the purpose to trace the sacral and its representation in the old Germanic concept “thing”, also it tries to see the analogy with the German concept “Ding” as well as partially with the English “thing” and has a look at these concepts form the etymological viewpoint. In the process of our research we addressed the work by M. Heidegger “Das Ding”, paid attention to the symbol “der Krug”, referred by Heidegger to the concept “Ding” and to the symbol “das Geviert” which fully expresses the essence of “der Krug” according to Heidegger. “Das Geviert” in its turn is referred to the concept “thing” which implies such elements as “assembly”, “council”, “court”, “lawsuit”, “plea”, “public assembly”.

Keywords: sacral, numinose, profane, irrational, symbols, sign, linguistic representation, metaphor, mysticism, essence, thing, being, etymology, etymological analysis