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Readings in Interpretation Theory and History of Literature Edited by Wlad Godzich and Jochen Schuite-Sasse Volume 1. Tzvetan Todorov Introduction to Poetics Volume 2. Hans Robert Jauss Toward an Aesthetic of Reception Volume 3. Hans Robert Jauss Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics Volume 4. Peter Burger Theory of the Avant-Garde Volume 5. Vladimir Propp Theory and History of Folklore Volume 6. Edited by Jonathan Arac, Wlad Godzich, and Wallace Martin The Yale Critics: Deconstruction in America Volume 7. Paul de Man Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism 2nd ed., rev. Volume 8. Mikhail Bakhtin Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics Volume 9. Erich Auerbach Scenes from the Drama of European Literature Volume 10. Jean-Francois Lyotard The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge Volume 11. Edited by John Fekete The Structural Allegory: Reconstructive Encounters with the New French Thought Volume 12. 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Andrzej Warminski Readings in Interpretation: Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger Readings in Interpretation Holderiin, Hegel Heidegger Andrzej Warminski Introduction by Rodolphe Gasche Theory and History of Literature, Volume 26 University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund of Yale University. Copyright © 1987 by the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 2037 University Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Markham. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Warminski, Andrzej. Readings in interpretation. (Theory and history of literature; v. 26) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Hermeneutics—History. 2. Holderlin, Friedrich, 1770- 1843—Philosophy. 3. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. 4. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. I. Title. II. Series. BD241.W36 1987 121'.68 86-1310 ISBN 0-8166-1239-0 ISBN 0-8166-1240-4 (pbk.) The following chapters, in revised form, are reproduced with permis- sion of the original publishers: Chapter 2, "Holderlin in France," Studies in Romanticism (Summer 1983): 173-97, reprinted courtesy of the Graduate School and Trustees of Boston University; chapter 4, "'Patmos': The Senses of Interpretation," MLN 91 (April 1976): 478-500; chapter 5, "Pre-positional By-play" Glyph 3 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), pp. 98-117; the final pages of chapter 6 appeared under the title "Reading Parentheses: Hegel by Heidegger," Genre (Winter 1983): 389-403; chapter 7, "Reading for Example: 'Sense-certainty' in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," Diacritics 11 (Summer 1981): 83-94; and the epilogue, "Dread- ful Reading: Blanchot on Hegel," Yale French Studies 69 (1985): 267-75. The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. Contents Acknowledgments vii Reading Chiasms: An Introduction Rodolphe Gasche ix Prefatory Postscript: Interpretation and Reading xxvii I. READING HOLDERLIN 1. Endpapers: Holderlin's Textual History 3 2. Holderlin in France 23 3. Heidegger Reading Holderlin 45 4. "Patmos": The Senses of Interpretation 72 II. READING HEGEL 5. Pre-positional By-play 95 6. Parentheses: Hegel by Heidegger 112 7. Reading for Example: "Sense-certainty" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 163 Epilogue: Dreadful Reading: Blanchot on Hegel 183 Notes 195 Index 223 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Earlier versions of several of the essays previously appeared in periodicals: chapter 2, "Holderlin in France," in Studies in Romanticism (Summer 1983): 173-97; chapter 4, "'Patmos': The Senses of Interpretation," in MLN 91 (April 1976): 478-500; chapter 5, "Pre-positional By-play," in Glyph 3 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), pp. 98-117; the final pages of chapter 6 as "Reading Parentheses: Hegel by Heidegger," in Genre (Winter 1983): 389-403; chapter 7, "Reading for Example: 'Sense-certainty' in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit," in Diacritics 11 (Summer 1981): 83-94; and the epilogue, "Dreadful Reading: Blanchot on Hegel," in Yale French Studies 69 (1985): 267-75. Permission to reprint is gratefully acknowledged. I am indebted to those who read this book, whether in dissertation form or as an expanded book manuscript: J. Hillis Miller, Karsten Harries, Rainer Nagele, Wlad Godzich, Lindsay Waters, Samuel Weber, and Rodolphe Gasche. I am also grateful to Virginia Hans for her careful copy editing. My greatest debt is to my teachers at Yale, in Freiburg, and in Paris, in particular Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to whose teaching and example I owe what I have understood about reading (and writing). This page intentionally left blank Reading Chiasms An Introduction Rodolphe Gasché Coming to a text (or, for that matter, a collection of texts), the reader-critic normally expects that its constellation yields to the unity of a configuration of thought. Yet, if a work deliberately situates itself between figures, themes, or motifs that could, and normally would, authoritatively confer unity, what, then, is its status? Indeed, what sort of unity does an in-between establish, in particular if the work does not occupy the precise middle of that interspace? If, on the contrary, it is at once in-between and to the side? If the figures of thought at the crisscross of which the work places itself are neither identical to one another nor in a relation of otherness, the difficulty of the work increases considerably. This is definitely true when those figures are themselves inquiries into the intricacies of the in-between. The work we are speaking of, then, sides with an irreducibly endless series of interfaces. Lacking a determining negation by the other, not one of these figures of thought can reflect itself into mere identity; rather, the work in question remains suspended betwixt and between, to the side of, by right, only a virtual middle between nonidentical interfaces. It follows that the question of the (literal and figural) unity of such work must take a different turn. Although Readings in Interpretation invites its reader to think about such a turn, this work must also be regarded as a book on Holderlin, Hegel, and Heidegger. It is, no doubt, a major contribution to the history of German idealism and romanticism, since it is engaged in the task of reassessing the dif- ferences between some of its outstanding exponents—the singular place of IX
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