ABSTRACT

In Junger's systematic examination of the term "type" in Type, Name, Gestalt, it becomes directly clear that everything begins with the sensory perception. Perception does not however begin with the observation of different objects in reality, rather with the "limitless fertility of appearances" of nature. According to the metaphysical concept of language, the name is an expression of an inner image that is given. In the workshop landscape there is no type, which means that Junger speaks of an instrumental metaphysical concept of language regarding the type, but does not take this concept on in Type, Name, Gestalt. Junger's non-metaphysical concept of the nature of language exists thus in that it articulates a meaningful world that however is surrounded by the hidden horizon of meaning and remains housed therein. Junger's differentiation between the intuitive concept of the type and the free act of naming harks back to the metaphysical tradition.