The Creature, the First Question: An Essay
The article deals with the notion of the "Creature" as being displayed in Joseph Wittig's essay titled Der Weg zur Kreatur. This piece by Wittig (1879-1949), one of the co-founders of the journal Die Kreatur, himself a banished Catholic thinker, an excommunicated theologian, was publi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
[2019]
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Naharaim
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 3-14 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wittig, Joseph 1879-1949
/ Creature
/ Metaphysics
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Joseph Wittig
B Die Kreatur (Journal) B German-Jewish Studies |
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| Summary: | The article deals with the notion of the "Creature" as being displayed in Joseph Wittig's essay titled Der Weg zur Kreatur. This piece by Wittig (1879-1949), one of the co-founders of the journal Die Kreatur, himself a banished Catholic thinker, an excommunicated theologian, was published in the third volume of the journal in 1929/1930. The major argument to be presented here, following Wittig's essay, concerns the path (but also the method) into the world of the creature, namely, the way-back, a regression, which depends on counter-movements, suspensions, gestures of recollection and witnessing. This path is based on the potentialities of the "first question" - a demand for the first word, a proper name for the silent, forgotten creature, being invited to encounter. The encounter with the creatures is a method of thinking, a way of being in this world that is based on the possibility of asking rightly the "first question". For what this question performs is an attention, hearing of, a method of listening. In asking the question of (and for) the creature, language itself turns toward the world of the creation, in a search for a proper name, calling creation to be heard, to belong. |
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| ISSN: | 1862-9156 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Naharaim
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/naha-2018-0106 |