History Does Not Belong To Us; We

The More Language Is A Living Operation, The Less We Are Aware Of It. Thus It Follows From The Self-forgetfulness Of Language That Its Real Being Consists In What Is Said In It.

The Hermeneutic Consciousness, Which Must Be Awakened And Kept Awake, Recognized That In The Age Of Science Philosophy's Claim Of Superiority Has Something Chimerical And Unreal About It. But Though The Will Of Man Is More Than Ever Intensifying Its Criticism Of What Has Gone Before To The Point Of Becoming Utopian Or Eschatological Consciousness, The Hermeneutic Consciousness Seeks To Confront That Will With Something Of The Truth Of Remembrance: With What Is Still And Ever Again Real.

The Real Being Of Language Is That Into Which We Are Taken Up When We Hear It - What Is Said.

A Cultured Society That Has Fallen Away From Its Religious Traditions Expects More From Art Than The Aesthetic Consciousness And The 'standpoint Of Art' Can Deliver. The Romantic Desire For A New Mythology... Gives The Artist And His Task In The World The Consciousness Of A New Consecration. He Is Something Like A 'secular Saviour' For His Creations Are Expected To Achieve On A Small Scale The Propitiation Of Disaster For Which An Unsaved World Hopes.

The Process Of Translating Comprises In Its Essence The Whole Secret Of Human Understanding Of The World And Of Social Communication.