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| Genius: Genius is exceptional intellectual or creative ability. It is often associated with originality, insight, and the ability to see things in new ways. See also Creativity, Progress, Knowledge, Understanding, Intelligence._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Friedrich Schleiermacher on Genius - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 193 Genius/Understanding/Schleiermacher/Gadamer: Procedures cause, provided that [a] production takes place mechanically according to laws and rules and not unconsciously ingeniously, the composition to be consciously reconstructed by the interpreter; but provided that it is an individual, in the true sense of the word, creative achievement of genius, there can be no such reconstructions according to rules. The genius itself is forming new patterns and rules. It creates new forms of language use, literary composition, etc. Schleiermacher takes this difference into account. On the side of hermeneutics, the ingenious production corresponds to the fact that it requires divination, immediate guessing, which ultimately presupposes a kind of congeniality. But if the boundaries between the artless and the artistic, the mechanical and the ingenious production are fluid, provided that individuality is always expressed and a moment of rule-free genius is always at work in it, as in children who grow into a language, it follows that the final reason for all understanding must always be a divinatory act of congeniality, the possibility of which is based on a prior connection of all individualities. >Individuals/Schleiermacher, >Hermeneutics/Schleiermacher._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schleiermacher, Friedrich Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-20