momentary glimpse --> the be-ing of any being is different, all ways unique:
take a text, say a "sacred" text as meant by Allen in his recent book (not
at all exhausted or confined by the religious claims to sacredness), i.e.,
one which could not have conveyed its message any way different to the words
used in its saying; Allen points to a paradox in the passage from original
text to current text, slung between various moments of rhetorical
hermeneutics and hermeneutical rhetorics: "the text can become meaningful
only if its original meaning is lost", freeing up the rhetor to transmit the
(otherwise, perhaps, obscure) message conveyed by the original text and
authority/author, in the present situation of understandings and audience;
the text (the original being) then slips and slithers through and past its
interpretations; this slipping is itself not the text (or texts that ensue)
but the very text-ing of the text, its be-ing; here the be-ing of the text
is never a text itself but the way the text texts, its "textuality" to
employ a Scultean term.
regards
michaelP
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take a text, say a "sacred" text as meant by Allen in his recent book (not
at all exhausted or confined by the religious claims to sacredness), i.e.,
one which could not have conveyed its message any way different to the words
used in its saying; Allen points to a paradox in the passage from original
text to current text, slung between various moments of rhetorical
hermeneutics and hermeneutical rhetorics: "the text can become meaningful
only if its original meaning is lost", freeing up the rhetor to transmit the
(otherwise, perhaps, obscure) message conveyed by the original text and
authority/author, in the present situation of understandings and audience;
the text (the original being) then slips and slithers through and past its
interpretations; this slipping is itself not the text (or texts that ensue)
but the very text-ing of the text, its be-ing; here the be-ing of the text
is never a text itself but the way the text texts, its "textuality" to
employ a Scultean term.
regards
michaelP
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