The question of the scripts that preceded the theorisation of “media” in Cold War era West Germany has often been discussed in terms of the emergence of a novel philosophy of technology since the interwar period. The high-minded humanism of Dilthey's and Gadamer's “hermeneutics”—human minds at full capacity, in dialogue—was forced to admit that the crude material sites of textuality added and warped meanings. A reckoning with the technological advancements of the World Wars and the Cold War as their continuation is often credited with triggering this intellectual shift. One problem with this account is the simplistic construction of the supposedly superseded position. A less complacent historical examination would reveal that hermeneutics, when it was raised to philosophical dignity, was actually a cover for a fragile position. Nineteenth-century philology, as a field marked, in the period, by the rapid expansion of orientalist research, had crucially unsettled previous understandings of linguistic meaning. This unsettling resulted in notions that informed the historicised ontology, and other patterns of discourse, that continue to recur even in recent media theories. The article identifies some of these patterns and, using Friedrich Kittler and Günther Anders as case studies, tracks some of their manifestations.

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冷战媒体理论中的语言文字

冷战时期西德“媒体”理论化之前的剧本问题，通常是从二战以来出现的一种新颖的技术哲学来讨论的。狄尔泰和伽达默尔的“诠释学”的高尚人本精神-在对话中全力以赴的人类思想-被迫承认原始文本的原始材料网站增加了意义，扭曲了意义。随着世界大战和冷战的不断发展，对它们的技术进步的反思常常被认为是触发了这种智力转变的原因。这个问题的一个问题是所谓被取代职位的简化结构。较不自满的历史考察将表明，诠释学在被提升为哲学尊严时，实际上是对脆弱立场的掩盖。在此期间，十九世纪的语言学领域以东方主义研究的迅速发展为标志，这使以前对语言含义的理解极为不稳定。这种不安导致产生了一些观念，这些观念为历史化的本体论以及其他话语模式提供了信息，甚至在最近的媒体理论中也不断出现。本文确定了其中一些模式，并使用Friedrich Kittler和GüntherAnders作为案例研究，跟踪了它们的某些表现形式。