I would be very surprised if Peirce were not at least somewhat familiar with Hölderlin. Hölderlin was a major 19th century poet, and Peirce was steeped in German literature. I imagine he read German as fluently as English, having read Kant in German as a teenager.
Jay ________________________________ From: C S Peirce discussion list [PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU] on behalf of gstic...@mindspring.com [gstic...@mindspring.com] Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 10:51 AM To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: Re: [peirce-l] Peirce and Hölderlin I've not found anything in a bit of a cursory search George -----Original Message----- From: Cassiano Terra Rodrigues Sent: Aug 31, 2011 1:46 AM To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: [peirce-l] Peirce and H=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F6lderlin?= Hello list: Does anyone know whether Peirce knew anything by Friedrich Hölderlin? I'm thinking specifically about Hölderlins poem called Mnemosyne, where the image of man as sign appears. I found this link to the poem: http://publish.uwo.ca/~rparke3/documents/mnemosynedrafttrans.pdf And also this quote from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (I couldn't make sure yet whether or not it's from "The Death of Empedocles"/ "Der Tod des Empedokles", by Hölderlin): "Der Pathos des Sängers ist nicht die betäubende Naturmacht, sondern die Mnemosyne, die Besinnung und gewordeneInnerlichkeit, die Erinnerung des unmittelbaren Wesens." (sorry, I can't translate that into English and couldn't find the translation online, but it's from the Phenomenology of Spirit, VII.B.c: The Spiritual Work of Art). This quote seems to indicate to the same general philosophical point as CSP does in his 1868 papers on cognition: the impossibility of an imediate knowledge. Anyway, just a point of historical curiosity; but the Hölderlin case seems more interesting, to me at least. All the very best to all, cass. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU George Stickel Southern Polytechnic State University Cell: 404-388-7162 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
