Nessus und wilder Andres : Kentauren im Berner Oberland? Etymologische Versuche zu den fünf Namen des Berges Niesen im Bericht des Humanisten Benedikt Aretius von 1561

Zusammenfassung: Der Zürcher Universalgelehrte Konrad Gessner (1516-1565) war die zentrale Figur einer Welle der Bergbegeisterung, die knapp zweihundert Jahre vor Albrecht von Hallers Epoche machendem Lehrgedicht 'Die Alpen' theologische, philologische und naturwissenschaftliche Lebensentwürfe verband und sich an den Wundern der Gebirgsland-schaft berauschte. In diesen Umkreis gehört der Bericht des Berner Humanisten Benedikt Aretius über die Besteigung der beiden Voralpengipfel Stockhorn und Niesen im Jahr 1557. Die nachfolgenden Überlegungen zu den darin genannten Namen für den Berg Niesen (Nessus, Niesen, Jesen, Stalden, Zum wilden Andres) zeigen, dass Aretius Ausführungen hauptsächlich als Hommage an den Zeitgeist und an den Freund Konrad Gessner zu lesen sind – auch und vor allem die darin enthaltenen etymologischen Versuche und Anspielungen.

Ancora su Hölderlin e gli scrittori di lingua italiana (da Giosue Carducci a Fabio Pusterla)

A discussion of the long-term “Hölderlinism” of Italian poets, starting from Vigolo’s essay on Hölderlin and the music (1966), moving back to Carducci’s translations, with a critical edition of his version of Hölderlin’s Achill (1874, see the leaf reproduced in the appendix), and concluding with a look at later Italian poets up to Pusterla (2004).

Linguista sum... sed lingua non definio. Absence de définition de la langue et circularité de la construction structurale

This article analyzes the Jakobsonian classification of aphasias. It aims to show on the one hand the non-linguistic character of this classification and on the other hand its asymmetry, in spite of the fact that its author had conceived his structural construction as symmetrical. The non-linguistic character of Jakobson’s formulation is due to the absence of any definition of language, this absence being the main characteristic of Jakobsonian linguistics: concerning the aphasia problem, the Jakobsonian formulation is linguistic solely by virtue of its object, aphasia, which is already considered as a linguistic concern because it belongs to the field of « language », but which is not defined as such (as linguistic). As for asymmetry, it demonstrates first the circularity of the Jakobsonian representation of language (the duality between structure and functioning), and secondly the non-linguistic character – in the Saussurean sense of the term – of the aphasia problem. Thus it appears that breaking (in the sense of Gaston Bachelard) with idiom is the prerequisite of a scientific apprehension of language, and therefore of any interdisciplinarity, this being one of Jakobson’s favorite topics but one that this linguist failed to render fruitful because he did not offer a real definition of language.