Google: Words beyond Grammar
<p>Human life can be described as a prolonged dialogue with the world. Man interrogates the world and is interrogated by the world. This dialogue is regulated by the way in which we define the legitimate questions that we may ad dress to the world or the world may address to us—and the way in which we can identify the relevant answers to these questions. If we believe that the world was created by God, we ask questions and wait for answers that are different from those that we ask if we believe that the world is an uncreated “empirical reality.” And if we believe that the human being is a rational animal we practice this dialogue differently from the way we do if we believe that it is a body of desire. Thus our dialogue with the world is always based on certain philosophical presuppositions that define its medium and its rhetorical form…</p>
Authors: Boris Groys
Series Editor: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martínez, Bettina Funcke
Editors: Katrin Sauerländer, Cordelia Marten
Proofreader: Melissa Larner, Sam Frank
Translators: Gerrit Jackson
Designer: Leftloft
Part of: dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts
ISBN: 9783775730754