Staiger and Adorno split over whether interpretation accepts or interrogates conditions

Evidence

Staiger’s interpretation was self-contained. The mood dominant in it was one in which great minds touched upon their greatness and accepted given conditions, a mood of wonder at the fact that `human life is open towards human life, even across gulfs in time and space’, the Nietzschean pathos of communicating from peak to peak. Adorno’s interpretation was filled with the restlessness of the search for the methods lying behind artistic expression. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2228

Categorization

• QUESTION: How exactly does Staiger’s ‘wonder at communication across gulfs’ connect to the Nietzschean pathos of peak-to-peak communication? A thread worth chasing.
• XREF: connects to: Staiger saw interpretation as proving a poem’s internal coherence — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2225

Broader Connections

• Staiger saw interpretation as proving a poem’s internal coherence #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2225