Prophecies of Language : The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism / / Kristina Mendicino

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480915903321
• Autore: Mendicino Kristina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-8232-7404-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Collana: Lit Z
• Soggetti: Romanticism--Germany
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PITFALLS OF TRANSLATING PHILOSOPHY: OR, THE LANGUAGES OF G. W. F. HEGEL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT -- LANGUAGE AT AN IMPASSE, IN PASSING: WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT’S AGAMEMNON TRANSLATION -- PROPHECY, SPOKEN OTHERWISE: IN THE LANGUAGE OF AESCHYLUS’S CASSANDRA -- PROPHETIC POETRY, AD INFINITUM: FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL’S DAYBREAK -- EMPEDOCLES, EMPYRICALLY SPEAKING—: FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN’S TRAGIC ÖDE -- DISCLOSURE -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the sense of telling future events, but in the sense of speaking in the place of another—most often unbeknownst to the speaker herself. In prophetic speech, the confusion of tongues repeats, each time anew, as language takes place unpredictably in more than one voice and more than one tongue at once. Mendicino argues that the relation between translation and prophecy drawn by German Romantic writers fundamentally changes the way we must approach this so-called “Age of Translation.” Whereas major studies of the period have taken as their point of departure the opposition of the familiar and the foreign, Mendicino suggests that Romantic writing provokes ; the questions: how could one read a language that is not one? And what would such a polyvocal, polyglot language, have to say about philology—both for the Romantics, whose translation projects are most intimately related to their philological preoccupations, and for us? In Prophecies of Language, these questions are pursued through readings of major texts by G.W.F. Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich Hölderlin. These readings show how, when one questions the presupposition of works composed by individual authors in one tongue, these texts disclose more than a monoglot reading yields, namely the “plus” of their linguistic plurality. From such a surplus, each chapter goes on to advocate for a philology that, in and through an inclination toward language, takes neither its unity nor its structure for granted but allows itself to be most profoundly affected, addressed—and afflicted—by it.

Epiphanie : Reine Erscheinung und Ethos ohne Kategorie / Guy van Kerckhoven

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910842044403321
• Autore: van Kerckhoven Guy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2015
• ISBN: 9783839412091; 3839412099
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (57 p.)
• Collana: Linzer Beiträge zur Kunstwissenschaft und Philosophie ; 2
• Disciplina: 263
• Soggetti: Verbindlichkeit; Anspruch; Existenzialanalytik; Antlitz; Offenbarung; Mensch; Ethik; Religion; Ästhetik; Philosophie; Human; Ethics; Aesthetics; Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Inhalt 5 Entbindung der Erscheinung 7 I. Leuchten 11 II. In die Erscheinung Treten 17 III. Die in sich re-lucente Gestalt 21 IV. Die Frontstellung des Menschen 29 V. Wehrlosigkeit 39 VI. Die Botschaft 50 Der Autor 56
• Sommario/riassunto: »Die Freiheit zum anderen unterscheidet die Menschen.« (H. Lipps) Die ; in diesem Essay unternommene Analyse der einzigartigen Epiphanie, in der menschliche Existenz »in die Erscheinung tritt«, führt von der Unscheinbarkeit der Sicht, der Anmut des Gesichts, der Entschiedenheit des frontalen Blicks bis zur Wehrlosigkeit des Antlitzes. In Auseinandersetzung mit erscheinungsphilosophischen Beiträgen von G.W.F. Hegel, H. Barth, H. Lipps und E. Levinas nähert sie sich dem von der Existenzialanalytik bisher verdunkelten »Konvergenzpunkt« von existenzieller und christologischer Erkenntnis. Der in der Epiphanie vernommene deontologische Anspruch tritt in den Lichtkreis einer ethischen Verhaltenheit, die sich der kategorialen Bestimmung entzieht und die Bedeutung des vinculum fidei et amoris für eine verbindliche Existenzform des Menschen sichtbar macht.