Immediacy and the Text

I. Since the advent of Kant's critical philosophy and the rapid succession of his intellectual heirs, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel on the one hand and more independent intellectuals such as Herder, Humboldt, and the Jena Romantics on the other hand, the history of philosophy has been dominated by a tension between the of consciousness and that of language. Kant, Fichte, and Schelling in particular all recognized in some form that the unity of self-consciousness, or apperception, could not be mediated for this self-consciousness as its own without being first exteriorized into a stratum of representation. Behind the dualisms of image (Bild) and intuition (Anschauung) on the one hand, and schematism or concept (Begriff) on the other, there persists the fundamental opposition between language as representation and language as productive force. Many of the systematic accounts of German Idealism, culminating in Hegel's Phenomenology and in the third section of his Encyclopedia, are thus devoted to reintegrating language and human consciousness.' Driven by the belief in the supremacy and autonomy of

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