The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Nothing exists except through language.
There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
The primordial experiences that are transmitted through art and history are not to be grasped from the points of view of these forms of consciousness.
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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