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Interpretation: A) Making statements about other statements, whereby new vocabulary may be introduced. If no new vocabulary is introduced, new information can be obtained by changing the syntactic grouping. B) In logic, interpretation is the insertion of values (objects) instead of the constants or free variables. _____________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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Walter Benjamin on Interpretation - Dictionary of Arguments
Bolz II 21 Interpretation/Benjamin: stages of interpretation are: synthetic Critical of society Philologically practical Latent content. >Interpretation, >Translation, >Meaning change, >Synthetic/analytical, >Practice, >Critical theory, >Criticism. Bolz II 22 Knowledge/Benjamin: "All human knowledge, if it is supposed to be responsible, must have the form of interpretation."(1) >Knowledge, >Responsibility. 1. W. Benjamin, Briefe. Herausgegeben und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Gershom Sholem und Th. W. Adorno, Frankfurt/M. 1966/1978. Br. 323. 152._____________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. |
Bo I N. Bolz Kurze Geschichte des Scheins München 1991 Bolz II Norbert Bolz Willem van Reijen Walter Benjamin Frankfurt/M. 1991 |