A Philosophical Reading of Adonis’s Adoniada in Light of Martin Heidegger’s Approach to the “Worldhood of the World”

Rajabi, Farhad; Parchekani, Fatima

doi:10.22059/jalit.2026.415209.613083

A Philosophical Reading of Adonis’s Adoniada in Light of Martin Heidegger’s Approach to the “Worldhood of the World”

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Farhad Rajabi ¹

Fatima Parchekani ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Guilan, Rasht- Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran- Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2026.415209.613083

Abstract

From the Heideggerian philosophical perspective, the world is not merely a collection of things or conventional relations; rather, it is essentially and continually connected, at a deeper level, to the question of Being. The world itself is a mode of Being, and the task of authentic philosophy is to serve as an ontology (science of Being) of this world. On the other hand, when we turn to contemporary literature and poetry, we find that one of the main characteristics of current poetry is its engagement with the world, its phenomena and elements, as well as the relations dominating it, from this very perspective. In modern Arabic literature, the poetry of Adonis undoubtedly represents one of the most prominent embodiments of this approach. Adonis is a poet-philosopher, or a philosopher-poet, who invests the latent energy of language to delineate an epistemic vision of Being, to the extent that it can be said that his central poetic preoccupation is the question of existence itself. In this article, focusing on the concept of the "worldhood of the world" and tracing a limited number of examples in his new poetry collection, Adoniada, we seek to provide a reading that reveals this ontological presence. The methodology of this research is descriptive-analytical, and the findings indicate that Adonis sometimes works in harmony with Heidegger's ontological insights in creating the text within the space of language, while at other times, as a creative poet, he offers a more progressive and even divergent vision in analyzing certain themes. He invests the potentials of poetry, and it is natural that poetry, as a self-standing being, should have a broader and more essential relationship with addressing ontological issues.

Keywords

Worldhood

Ontology

Poetry

Heidegger

Adonis

Adoniada.

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