Harald Weinrich

Ugo M. Olivieri

Due essenzialmente sono le immagini che ricorrono nei testi e negli autori presi in esame per raffigurare la memoria, quella della tavoletta di cera su cui s’imprimono i caratteri grafici e le esperienze da ricordare, quella del magazzino come luogo ove si accumulano le conoscenze e i concetti. In tale metafora è implicito anche il carattere spaziale delle tecniche mnemotecniche della tradizione retorica che si servivano, per poter fissare i concetti nella memoria, di un’operazione spaziale, collocando le nozioni in luoghi reali o fittizi, ripercorrendo i quali ci si può ricordare la nozione che vi è collegata. Oltre che spaziale ogni metafora della memoria è anche temporale e come tutti i dati temporali è ancorata nelle nostre percezioni. Non vi è per noi tempo se non quello percepito da quella sensibile clessidra che sono i nostri sensi e il nostro corpo. Il senso della memoria è anche il modo con cui la memoria s’inscrive nei nostri sensi, è anche il modo in cui ogni tempo storico si raffigura la memoria culturale di una nazione o di un periodo. È quest’idea della memoria come recupero delle tracce, del rimosso, che, contigua con la psicoanalisi, la teoria letteraria insegue in vario modo nei testi della modernità.

Mnemosyne. Saggi per una teoria letteraria della memoria

Linguistik der Lüge

Presentación del editor: "Der Weg dieses Buches führt von "der" Sprache zu "den" Sprachen. Mit "der" Sprache im generischen Singular beschäftigen sich grundlegend die Kapitel zur Textlinguistik, zum kurzzeitigen und langzeitigen Sprachgedächtnis und zur Leiblichkeit als anthropologischer Basis aller Sprachstrukturen. Von "den" Sprachen im Plural der Vielfalt handeln in differenzierender Betrachtung die Kapitel zu den Wörterbüchern, zum Sprachverkehr der Fach- und Wissenschaftssprachen und zur europäischen Sprachenpolitik. So kommt in diesem Buch das Allgemeine der Theorie zusammen mit dem Besonderen der Empirie gleichrangig zur Anschauung."

mit einem vollständigen Schriftenverzeichnis des Autors 1956-2005

Sprache, das heißt Sprachen

Conscience linguistique et lectures littéraires

Can language hide thoughts? This question is considered by one of Europe's most eminent scholars in his influential essay "Linguistics of Lying," presented here for the first time in English, along with additional essays selected by the author. His survey of the different ways in which language is untrue links linguistic and literary categories in unexpected fashion to anthropology, sociology, ethics, and even good manners.

The Linguistics of Lying And Other Essays

Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our lives with medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend on work using technology. Alongside this struggle to manage the pressure of life’s ultimate deadline, human perception of the passage and effects of time has also changed. In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials—from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run—to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience. Weinrich’s analysis of the roots of the word time connects it to the temples of the skull, demonstrating that humans first experienced time in the beating of their pulses. Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense—the crucial sense that enables the other five. Written with Weinrich’s customary narrative elegance, On Borrowed Time is an absorbing—and, fittingly, succinct—meditation on life’s inexorable brevity.

The Art and Economy of Living with Deadlines

On Borrowed Time

Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald Weinrich, with far-ranging results. The most immediate was his claiming first prize with this volume's title essay, published the following year as Linguistik der Luge. Weinrich's influential essay, now in its sixth printing in Germany, is presented here for the first time in English, with an updated preface by the author and additional essays selected by him. With wit and clarity, Weinrich brings sophisticated thinking about semantics to bear on the question of how, and how much, language corresponds to thought. He argues that lying is a function not of words but of sentences; it belongs to the semantic aspect of language. His survey of the different ways in which language is untrue forges striking links between linguistic and literary categories on the one hand and ethics and even good manners on the other. In contrast with scholars of an earlier generation, for whom literary and cultural theory circumscribed the issue of style within a fixed aesthetic framework, Weinrich demonstrates that stylistic analysis is closely linked with analysis in the domains of sociology and anthropology. The essays "Jonah's Sign: On the Very Large and the Very Small in Literature," "Politeness, an Affair of Honor," "Politeness and Sincerity," and "The Style Is the Man Is the Devil" complement "The Linguistics of Lying" in their focus on real and false representations in literature and in life, and notably on the immensely destructive lies, Adolf Hitler's in particular, that marked the politics of the twentieth century.

besprochene und erzählte Welt

Tempus

eine Interpretation

Tragische und komische Elemente in Racines "Andromaque"

In der Welt werden munter die "Lügenfahnen" (Goethe) entrollt, und daran wird sich wohl auch so rasch nichts ändern. Was aber geht eigentlich mit der Sprache vor sich, wenn die Wahrheit zur Lüge verdreht wird? Können nicht nur Sätze, sondern auch Wörter lügen? Und wie ist das Verhältnis der Ironie zur Lüge? Harald Weinrichs fulminanter Essay ist ein linguistisches Kabinettstück und eine kleine Anleitung zum Denken des Wahren.

Professor of Romance Languages Co-Director Comparative Literature Program Steven Rendall

Harald Weinrich's epilogue considers forgetting in the present age of information overflow, particularly in the area of the natural sciences."--Jacket.

Harald Weinrich

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