Showing posts with label Lichtenberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lichtenberg. Show all posts

06 July 2016

L'anima /3

 
Certi suoi scritti sono un po' come dei pic-nic, in cui l'autore mette le parole e il lettore il senso[1].
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (scienziato del XVIII secolo)
a proposito di Jacob Boehme (mistico del XVII secolo)
 

[1] his [Böhme's] writings, Lichtenberg says, are "a sort of picnic, where the author supplies the words (the sound) and the reader the meaning" (Schriften und Briefe, I:E 104) — David E. Wellbery, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Anton Kaes, Joseph Leo Koerner, Dorothea E. von Mücke: A New History of German Literature