Second naivety
Second or secondary naivety is a literary writing and narrative style . It appears for the first time expressis verbis in 1925 with Peter Wust (1884–1940), who has the intellectual authorship. By means of the “second naivety”, Paul Ricoeur also calls it “second Copernican turn”, man should experience the world again as total reality.
Action
The “second naivete” is not just telling a story, but also telling it.
The texts are first subjected to a historical-critical reception: viewed as myth / legend and examined for possible historical content. Then the same stories are read again, this time as if-true, hence the term “second naivety”. The second naivety no longer cares about any of those questions. Result: Many stories in the Bible that are completely unhistorical begin to speak theologically . The second naivety thus describes a post-critical hermeneutic perspective in which the texts are interpreted in the light of their symbolic content in order to get to their poetic core.
Examples
The problem is dealt with in many places in the Joseph novel . It is said of Abraham that a “God's distress” drove him. Thomas Mann gives the interpretation of the genealogical table from the book of Genesis (11.10-32), which the book of Judith (5.6-9a) also undertakes. There Achior teaches: The ancestors of the Jews have become nomads because they no longer wanted to serve the gods of their fathers.
literature
- Ernst Simon : The second naivety . In: ders., Bridges. Collected essays . Heidelberg 1965
- Ursula Meyer: one-subject publ. (Ed.): Paul Ricoeur: the basics of his philosophy 1991, ISBN 3-928089-01-3 . , DNB 910590273
- François Bondy: Jump into the second naivete - Eugène Ionesco's first novel “The loner” . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/1974
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Meyer: one-subject publ. (Ed.): Paul Ricoeur: the basics of his philosophy 1991, ISBN 3-928089-01-3 . P. 111