Re: [xmca] The Interpersonal Is Not the Sociocultural

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

Q: What was Nietzsche, in terms of his "Discipline"?
A: Nietzsche was a Philologist.

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, Andy Blunden wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Every text has a context, a history and a speaker. To understand a text it is 
> certainly necessary to access each of these resources. Every German speaker 
> will know without a moment's reflection the semantic connection between 
> Tätigkeit, Tat and tun, but I find that few German speakers are aware of the 
> history of the concept from Herder to Fichte to Hess to Marx. It is possible 
> to exactly what Marx is talking about in Theses on Feuerbach, even though 
> Marx never explains what he means by Tätigkeit, because we know the history 
> of the word and who Marx was talking to at the time and the context of 
> Germany after the suppression of Hegelianism. Key words like Tätigkeit have 
> to be studied, and I find that this study is as necessary for German speakers 
> as it is for Anglophile monoglots like me ... especially if they believe that 
> "there is nothing outside of the text" :).
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