By Kurt H. Wolff (auth.)
Su"ender and capture: provide so that you can obtain, the place the giving is all your self, in a complete event. this can be scarcely new at the American scene, and it really is historic wisdom, East and West. The fears of overall give up, the fears of self-revelation and of overall abandon, even supposing real, are likewise now not new. but Kurt H. Wolff does try anything new right here, an epistemologi cal essay with the aid of this outdated suggestion: his subtitle is 'experience and inquiry today'. He attempts to formulate an built-in view which includes within the idea of overall event not just the authorized part- esthetics, faith, the hot American adventure - but additionally a metaphysics, a phenomenology, a idea of belief, a social philosophy and a strategy of the social sciences, even a philosophy of heritage and psychopathology. Phenomenology (especially Alfred Schutz), the severe Frankfurt institution (especially Adorno and Marcuse), sociology (especially Georg Simmel), and existentialism (especially Camus) are tied in jointly. all of it seems topsy-turvy in the beginning. we have now right here scraps of a diary, fragments of correspondence, a stray adolescent love letter, notes on notes on box paintings, and notes and reviews on instructional seminars plus lengthy excerpts from scholars' essays, a stray paper in a realized magazine summarizing the middle of the e-book, reviews piled on reviews and an internet of self-references, literary criticisms, and items of poetry, plus a wealthy scholarly apparatus.
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On an otherworldly view, strictly speaking, we have no history, hence no discontinuity, no alienation, no crisis. If I held such a view, I could say nothing about our crisis; I could only show its essential irrelevance. 1 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Buch der Freunde: Tagebuch-Aufzeichnungen (1922), in Hofmannsthal, Selected Prose, trans. Mary Hottinger and Tania and James Stern, introd. Hermann Brach, New York: Pantheon (Bollingen Series XXXIII), 1952, p. 356. 3 S~ren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death (1849), trans.
This is the risk of insanity. The dangers of both kinds of false surrender may be avoided by awareness of them and, if awareness is insufficient, that is, if it fails, by new surrender or the effort to surrender. Still, there is nothing certain about this. But we must go beyond these explications of cognitive love. In surrender, a person, whoever it may be, is thrown back on what that person really is - which is what he or she shares with mankind. In surrender, I am, that is, I am as a human being, a representative of mankind, rather than as the individual which I also am.
The reason is that the person who surrenders to this cause moves on the faith in surrender. In its essence this faith may be formulated as faith in surrender because of faith in man as the being that can surrender and catch. This faith, and the catch of surrender on it alone, and not on any other element of tradition, are the phenomena that in this stage of man's history articulate themselves as that which is common to mankind. I may examine my faith by observing how good a witness to it I am, how often and on what kinds of occasions I can remain true to myself, rather than giving in to the temptation of refusing to surrender.