TY - JOUR AU - Kølle, Anders PY - 2017/12/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Den udtømte sandhed og den sande uudtømmelighed JF - Periskop – Forum for kunsthistorisk debat JA - Periskop VL - 15 IS - 18 SE - Artikler (fagfællebedømt) DO - 10.7146/periskop.v15i18.110203 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/periskop/article/view/110203 SP - 31-43 AB - <p class="p1">The Exhausted Truth and the True Inexhaustibility</p><p class="p1">What are the relations between images and truth? How can truth be represented? In the</p><p class="p1">article “The Exhausted Truth and the True Inexhaustibility”, the German romanticist and</p><p class="p1">philosopher Friedrich Schlegel’s theories concerning the great value and unmeasurable</p><p class="p1">importance of the endless, the unintelligible, and the inexhaustible serves as the opening</p><p class="p1">to a discussion of what is to be understood by the question of truth. Does truth pertain</p><p class="p1">to the forever unsayable domains of the oblique and evasive – that which must remain</p><p class="p1">outside the firm grasp of enlightenment and understanding? Or, on the contrary, is truth</p><p class="p1">that which not only can be enframed, but also reproduced and represented? The discussion</p><p class="p1">of this question brings forth a fundamental divide between Schlegel’s and Romanticism’s</p><p class="p1">idealizations of the creative and vitalistic transgressions of the human limits of</p><p class="p1">understanding and the boundaries set up in the names of enlightenment and knowledge.</p><p class="p1">As argued in the article, this divide would also describe a discrepancy between, on the one</p><p class="p1">hand, a contemplative search into the unknown depths of the world, and, on the other</p><p class="p2">DEN UDTØMTE SANDHED OG DEN SANDE UUDTØMMELIGHED <span class="s1">43 </span><span class="s2">PERISKOP NR. 18 2017</span></p><p class="p1">hand, the desire to bring into light, into form, and into image. The Information Age in</p><p class="p1">which we are said to live today would appear to provide us first and foremost with the</p><p class="p1">latter image of truth: The substitution of Romanticism’s inexhaustive image of truth with</p><p class="p1">the true exhaustiveness of our image culture.</p> ER -