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| Repetition: procedures or processes that are described in a certain way, but not objects, can be repeated. In order for the repeatability of a process to be ascertained, its description must emphasize and particularly evaluate certain properties of the objects involved against other properties of the same objects. Whether history is repeated is the subject of controversy. See also forgery, copy, history._____________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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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Repetition - Dictionary of Arguments
I 127 Repetition/Play/Art/Performance/Fest/Representation/Temporality/Gadamer: We [assume] that the work of art is a game, i.e. that it has its actual being inseparable from its representation and that the unity and independence of a structure emerges in the representation. It is part of its essence that it is instructed to represent itself. >Play/Gadamer, >Representation/Gadamer. Representation has the character of repeating the same thing in an indissoluble and indelible way. Repetition here, of course, does not mean that something is repeated in the true sense, i.e. is traced back to an original. I 128 Rather, each repetition is equally original to the work itself. We know the highly enigmatic time structure that is present here, from the festivity or celebration(1). Part of the periodic festivities is at least that they repeat themselves. In the case of the festivity we call it its return. Yet the recurring festival is neither different nor a mere reminder of an originally celebrated one. The originally sacred character of all celebrations obviously excludes such distinctions as we know them in the time experience of present, memory and expectation. The time experience of the festival is rather the celebration, a presence sui generis. Cf. >Time, >Present, >Past, >Future, I 396 Repetition/Gadamer: That (...) language can exist in written form is by no means secondary to the nature of language. Rather, this ability to write is based on the fact that speaking itself has a share in the pure ideality of the sense that communicates itself in it. In writing, this sense of the spoken word is purely there for itself, completely detached from all emotional moments of expression and announcement. The meaning of a written record is therefore basically identifiable and repeatable. That which is identical in repetition alone is what was really laid down in the written record. This also makes it clear that repetition cannot be meant here in the strict sense. It does not mean a reference back to an original first in which something is said or written, as such. Reading understanding is not a repetition of something past, but participation in a present meaning. >Text/Gadamer, >Writing/Gadamer, >Tradition/Gadamer. 1. Walter F. Otto and Karl Kerényi have the merit of having recognized the importance of the celebration for the history of religion and anthropology (see Karl Kerényi, Vom Wesen des Festes, Paideuma 1938)._____________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. |
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 2024-04-19