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     1) The notion of meta-literature or perhaps meta-criticism,
criticism of literary conventions and their implementations, but
also metahistory, like metaphysics, the reduction of the subject
or topic to experience, to individuality.  Meta-criticism as an
instance of recursiveness of thought.  Is there a point at
which verbal reflection is no longer possible?

     2) The burden of the 19th century Kantians; imitating
Kant not only in his logic and illogic, but also  purporting
to deal with his problems: the problems he found, the
problems he left and the problems he created.  His admirers
and imitators indulged in verbal calisthenics, Becoming
themselves miniature Kants, and caricatures of him. It was
the vacuous idealism of Hegel and the obtuse dogmatism of
Comte that presented the Kantians with logical problems that
they were unable to solve and that they were unable to
escape.  Such was Georg Simmel's situation.

     3) I cannot and do not propose or advocate a "solution"
to any "philosophical" problem.  To the extent that the
problem is real, it has no solution, and to the extent that
the problem is factitious, it requires no solution.  I do
nothing more than to describe the quasi topographical
standpoint from which the problem, like any other phenomenon
of nature, may be viewed, appreciated, understood, erlebt, -
maximizing edification and constructiveness.

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Copyright 2006, Ernst Jochen Meyer
