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.
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For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.Hans-Georg Gadamer
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.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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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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