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Minority Report: Approaching Peter Szondi's Hölderlin Studies

Shortly before his death, Peter Szondi noted in a talk entitled "Remarks on the Research Situation of Literary Hermeneutics" (1970): "At a hermeneutics symposium today, the scholar of literature [Literaturwissenschaftler] sits beside the theologian and the jurist as the poor relation at the table. His place is indeed inherited, and the row of his ancestors is neither the shortest nor the worst. But he cannot contribute much." The talk goes on to describe how two main trends in literary scholarship, positivism and text-immanent interpretation, lack the prerequisites for "the cultivation [Ausbildung] of a specifically literary hermeneutics."¹ The first, taking empirical...