ABSTRACT
Benjamin (Dupré)
H.G. Gadamer die Grundlagen der xx Jahrhundert
[Naivitat des Setzens]
Is the critique of the concept of the subject which is being attempted in our century, [different from the] something else than a mere repetition of what had been accomplished by German idealism – and, we must admit, with, in our case, incomparably less power of abstraction and without the conceptual [effectiveness power] strength that characterized the earlier movement? This is not the case …
[De Man appears to be translating Gadamer and differing from the translation that will appear in English, given that he has to search around for the right word.—C.C.]
Naivität des Setzens
Critique of pure perception and of pure descriptive discourse
The subject does not dominate his utterances, yet they are accessible to hermeneutic understanding
(hermeneutic circle – Heidegger)
Naivität der Reflexion
[separation between reflection
critique of Hegel’s absolute]
historicity of understanding which is not accessible to individual self-reflection
Naivität des Begriffs
interrelationship between concept and language
(as rhetoric etc.) Wittgenstein (Nietzsche)
conceptual and ordinary language are not simply separable
