Category: Essayismus

Every time I pass Fink on his lonely walks through the Lorettoberg parkland, he mutters something entirely unintelligible — a habit of his, and none of my business, except that yesterday the wind was strong enough, and the air damp enough, to carry the words to me regardless of whose business they were. The trinity,…

The line of argument runs thus: from an analysis of how the concept of time is first introduced — ἀριθμεῖν vs. Zeitigung — through the observation that in both cases the activity of consciousness precedes time, or at least precedes any concept of it, to the temporalization of noemata. Before individual consciousness turns to the…

The very last thing I should wish to do — I put it first, because my purposes will shortly demand it — is to write yet another text. Another of those weakly neurotic productions in which the author reproaches himself, at length, for his incapacity for system, while remaining, throughout, wholly incapable of examining the…

Dilthey writes that man is, by his nature, historical; and the proposition is not without its attractions — though it is equally not without its want of precision. His insistence — shared, as these things tend to be, by a great many others — amounts to this: not merely that man cannot exist outside of…