Intentio operis

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The intentio operis is the genuine intention of a text. The intentio operis is differentiated from the intentio auctoris - the intention imputed to the author of a text - and the intentio lectoris - the intention of the respective reader.

A text can - for example through stylistic weaknesses - disavow its author's intention to make statements; however, especially in the area of literature , it can actually be programmatic language work that should deviate from the author's opinions. "A rose is a rose, a text is a text - precisely because that is not the case , there is hermeneutics " ( U. Japp ), it says in literary theory .

Finally, the text can also be based on the will of scripture not to aim at an intentio operis , but at the negotiability of every intention; This is what the Viennese Germanist Martin A. Hainz called intentio scripturae . The term should take into account the fact formulated by Jacques Derrida that writing brings about temporalization and mediation, so reading always also includes intervention - with Derrida: "Messianic without messianism ", with Walter Benjamin : "maturing even the fixed words" - means:

“And to develop the difference is the freedom to which Scripture itself is determined, if this may still be called a determination . Instead of the intentio operis there is the intentio scripturae . "

- Martin A. Hainz

literature

  • Jacques Derrida: The writing and the difference . Translated from the French by Rodolphe Gasché. Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp, ​​1972, ISBN 3-518-57341-1 (stw 177).
  • Jacques Derrida: Grammatology . Translated from the French by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Hanns Zischler. Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp, ​​1983 [Paris 1967], ISBN 3-518-28017-1 (stw 417).
  • Jacques Derrida: Préjuges. Before the law . Translated from the French by Detlef Otto and Axel Witte. Vienna: Passagen, 1992 (Edition Passagen 34).
  • Martin A. Hainz: Intentio scripturae? On Revelation and Scripture, at Klopstock and in Derrida's Kafka reading . In: Trans. Internet magazine for cultural studies . No. 16/2005.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Martin A. Hainz: Intentio scripturae? On Revelation and Scripture, at Klopstock and in Derrida's Kafka reading . In: Trans. Internet magazine for cultural studies . No. 16/2005, accessed on June 18, 2012.