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Der Witz und seine Beziehung zur Nachdenklichkeit: Kleine Formen bei Blumenberg und Freud
Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Bd. 2025 (2025), Iss. 1: S. 38–60
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Fleming, Paul
Abstract
This article takes Hans Blumenberg’s failure to mention Sigmund Freud in his 1980 Freud-Prize acceptance speech as an occasion to think through the importance of small forms in these two theorists’ work. The essay explores Blumenberg’s theory of »pensiveness« (Nachdenklichkeit) and what it may be missing by ignoring Freud and his notion of the joke (Witz). At stake are the ways Blumenberg and Freud mobilize small forms as modes and methods of thinking: from Nicht-Denken to Nachdenklichkeit to Nachdenken and back again. Ultimately, small forms in Blumenberg and Freud – in different ways and to different ends – can achieve or show what theory alone cannot.
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