On the problematic of Darstellung in “The Literary Absolute” by Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Keywords:
artistic cognition, artistic representation, literary image, Darstellung, Vorstellung, Dichtung, early German Romanticism, imagination, fragmentary writing, eidetic memory studiesAbstract
The author considers “The Literary Absolute” by Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe from the viewpoint of the problematic of artistic cognition. He analyzes the way early Romantic aesthetics is treated in that work and, by explicating the notion of Darstellung, which is shown to be one of the key concepts for this particular context, reveals certain pivotal features of artistic cognition that distinguish it from both scientific and ordinary cognition.