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Julian Schütt fügt im zweiten Teil seiner Frisch-Biographie der Geschichte des merkwürdigen Faszinosums Bachmann-Frisch eine noch vor dem Kennenlernen im Frühjahr 1958 einsetzende, weitere Anekdote hinzu—Natürlich spielt der @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social eine Rolle, welchem B auch Gedichte lieferte
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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„The strong misreader, like Foucault or Bloom, prides himself on the same thing, on being able to get more out of the text than its author or its intended audience could possibly have found there (…) He is in it for what he can get out of it, not for the satisfaction of getting something right.“
Text: „ The kind of textualist who claims to have gotten the secret of the text, to have broken its code, prides himself on not being distracted by anything which the text might previously have been thought to be about or anything its author says about it. The strong misreader, like Foucault or Bloom, prides himself on the same thing, on being able to get more out of the text than its author or its intended audience could possibly have found there. Both break with the realism illustrated by the passage I have cited from Abrams. But they differ in that the first kind of critic is only a half-hearted pragmatist. He thinks that there really is a secret code and that once it's discovered we shall have gotten the text right. He believes that criticism is discovery rather than creation. The strong misreader doesn't care about the distinction between discovery and creation, finding and making. He doesn't think this is a useful distinction, anymore than Nietzsche or James did. He is in it for what he can get out of it, not for the satisfaction of getting something right.“
November 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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„The critic asks neither the author nor the text about their intentions but simply beats the text into a shape which will serve his own purpose. He makes the text refer to whatever is relevant to that purpose.“
Text: „Alternatively, however, the textualist may brush aside the notion of the text as machine which operates quite independently of its creator, and offer what Bloom calls a "strong misreading." The critic asks neither the author nor the text about their intentions but simply beats the text into a shape which will serve his own purpose. He makes the text refer to whatever is relevant to that purpose. He does this by imposing a vocabulary—a "grid," in Foucault's terminology—on the text which may have nothing to do with any vocabulary used in the text or by its author, and seeing what happens. The model here is not the curious collector of clever gadgets taking them apart to see what makes them work and carefully ignoring any extrinsic end they may have, but the psychoanalyst blithely interpreting a dream or a joke as a symptom of homicidal mania.“
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Wenn du mit seinem neusten Werk startest, beginnst du mit der sanften Seite des Romantikers Taylor. Der für die funkelnde Mannigfaltigkeit der Wirklichkeit sensibilisierte Katholik weiß um die profane Magie der sprachlichen Welterschließung.
Cover des neuesten Buches von Charles Taylor „Cosmic Connections. Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment“
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Beginn von Richard Rortys intellektueller Autobiographie: „I have spent my life rummaging through libraries, hoping to be bowled over — transformed — by some fiercely imaginative, utterly original book. Exalted by one such book, I would then come upon another, hard to reconcile with the first. Then I would try to bridge the gap between them, to find ways of restating what was said in each so as to allow for what was said in the other, to do what Gadamer calls "fusing horizons."“
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM