Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Adorno, Theodor W
• ROLF TIEDEMANN

Titel

PRESUPPOSITIONS: On the Occasion of a Reading by Hans G. Helms

Ist Teil von

• Notes to Literature, 2019, p.364-375

Ort / Verlag

New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I cannot claim here that I will facilitate the understanding of the text FA: M’AHNIESGWOW by interpreting it. Others, members of Helms’ circle of friends in Cologne, would be far more qualified for such interpretation, which would require a long period of immersion, than I; Gottfried Michael König has written an introduction to the work on the basis of intimate contact with it. Furthermore, the concept of Verstehen interpretive understanding, cannot be applied without further ado to a hermetic text. Essential to such a text is the shock with which it forcibly interrupts communication. The harsh light of unintelligibility that