[lit-ideas] Re: Help with Novalis?
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:46:26 +0200
Le 21 oct. 04, =E0 04:54, Richard Henninge a =E9crit :
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> Tja, Mike, I think some problems arise with the three words, "in all=20=
> this,"
> in the last--unsure--sentence. By translating "in ihnen" as "in all=20
> this," I
> believe you think you're referring to all those wonderful signs in=20
> nature,
> but I believe "in them" refers all the way back to the "diverse ways =
of
> men." I would guess that one of the "wondrous figures" is human=20
> language,
> including all the cultural achievements describable in that language.=20=
> The
> trick of the tragedy expressed in these first lines of _Die Lehrlinge=20=
> zu
> Sais_ is that all of the human knowledge, all of the experiences of=20
> men,
> "going" their "multiple ways," when "traced" in language, nevertheless
> resists explaining the higher language of nature, resists becoming the=20=
> "key"
> to that higher code. In other words, the language of man is not
> automatically applicable to nature. There is a disconnect. The=20
> premonition,
> the sense that the one mirrors the other or provides some natural key=20=
> to it,
> remains (leider, leider) an amorphous feeling that resists=20
> codification--ask
> any poet, any scientist.
M.C. Excellent! That's just what I was looking for, and it's most=20
helpful. Vielen Dank.
>
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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