Radical Activities of Sunan Kalijaga in 'Sěrat Walisana'

Keywords

radical action; Sunan Kalijaga; Sĕrat Walisana; perfection of life

Abstract

This paper tries to explain about the radical actions made by Sunan Kalijaga in an effort to achieve perfection of his life. The Life perfection which is the Other according to Zizek makes it forget that as a subject, he is bound by his position which can not be separated as a subject category of discourse that is different from the subject of grammar, the subject of law, the philosophical subject, and the subject of the self. In different categories, subjects can form themselves collectively. That is why, rarely a person has a single identity, but has multi identity. A person or a particular subject can simultaneously be called a Javanese, a Muslim, an Islamic Javanese. Such mention is made possible by a needy situation. When the subject is socially constructed as such in his life, the subject is bound by a single order called the symbolic order. The symbolic order is a social construction that causes the subject to have the Other. The subject, however, knows that the Other can not be achieved because the furthest or deepest and widest exploration of the Other is a vacuum or as it goes to emptiness. Sĕrat Walisana which is used as material object of this research is Library Collection Pura Pakualaman Number 0136/PP/73 Candi VIII-XIII. This Sĕrat Walisana is one of piwulang literary works, containing moral teachings narrated through the story of the saints. As one of the literary works initiated by Pakualam II, Sĕrat Walisana is referred to as sestradi because it contains teachings about the perfection of life.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wiwien Widyawati Rahayu
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Radical Activities of Sunan Kalijaga in 'Sěrat Walisana'
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 536
EP  - 545
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906134
ID  - Rahayu2018/11
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