27 juillet 2021
Martin Bartelmus, « Chapter 10. The Philological Machine », Dark Hermeneutics, ID : 10670/1.mhixu8
Every attempt to understand something that is written, poetry for example, takes place within a philological machine. This applies especially for the modern discourse of language which can be slightly dated to the beginning of the movement called “enlightenment”. What does philological machine mean? And why is it a machine at all? Let me start by comparing the not yet explained philological machine with two other machines described by Giorgio Agamben and Furio Jesi. After that I will disc...