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A Hermeneutics of Discretion

A Hermeneutics of Discretion A Hermeneutics of Discretion DAVID FARRELL KRELL University of Essex "Gently, mortals, be discreet. " - Mamie For reasons that are difficult to recite at the outset, I want to rescue the phrase "a hermeneutics of discretion," introduced some fifteen years ago as the conclusion to a thesis on Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche. The word "discretion" had come to me through the (in)discretion of the English translator of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les mots: he had rendered Sartre's grandmother's admonition, "Glissez, mortels, n'appuyez pas," as "Gently, mortals, be discreet." It seemed to me then-as it does now-that the outcome of Heideg- ger's confrontation with Nietzsche was captured in that bit of advice at once holderlinian and homey. In the present essay I want to revive the hermeneutics of discretion (the genitive is subjective) in response to two insightful and challenging interpretations of Heidegger/Nietzsche: first, Jacques Derrida's Spurs, written in 1972-73, revised in 1978; and second, two lengthy articles, entitled "La Dissimulation" (later retitled "Nietz- sche Apocryphe") and "L'Obliteration," by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.? 2 2 I Without discreet parody, without strategy of writing, without difference or divergence of quills, without style, namely, the grand-reversal comes to the same in the noisy declaration http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Research in Phenomenology Brill

A Hermeneutics of Discretion

Farrell Krell, David
Research in Phenomenology , Volume 15 (1): 1 – Jan 1, 1985
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© 1985 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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A Hermeneutics of Discretion DAVID FARRELL KRELL University of Essex "Gently, mortals, be discreet. " - Mamie For reasons that are difficult to recite at the outset, I want to rescue the phrase "a hermeneutics of discretion," introduced some fifteen years ago as the conclusion to a thesis on Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche. The word "discretion" had come to me through the (in)discretion of the English translator of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les mots: he had rendered Sartre's grandmother's admonition, "Glissez, mortels, n'appuyez pas," as "Gently, mortals, be discreet." It seemed to me then-as it does now-that the outcome of Heideg- ger's confrontation with Nietzsche was captured in that bit of advice at once holderlinian and homey. In the present essay I want to revive the hermeneutics of discretion (the genitive is subjective) in response to two insightful and challenging interpretations of Heidegger/Nietzsche: first, Jacques Derrida's Spurs, written in 1972-73, revised in 1978; and second, two lengthy articles, entitled "La Dissimulation" (later retitled "Nietz- sche Apocryphe") and "L'Obliteration," by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.? 2 2 I Without discreet parody, without strategy of writing, without difference or divergence of quills, without style, namely, the grand-reversal comes to the same in the noisy declaration

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Published: Jan 1, 1985

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