PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Julia Mansour
TI  - “Auf dem goldenen Grund aller Finsternis”— Erkenntnis-, Handlungs- und Seinsgründe in Hermann Brochs <em>Die Verzauberung</em>
AID  - 10.1353/mon.2008.0051
DP  - 2008 Mar 20
TA  - Monatshefte
PG  - 88--106
VI  - 100
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/100/1/88.short
4100  - http://mon.uwpress.org/content/100/1/88.full
AB  - Hermann Broch’s Die Verzauberung (The Spell) embodies a demanding philosophical content, which is not solely expressed in the narrator’s comments, but is additionally thematized through the protagonists’ actions. Broch’s narrator, tragically confronted with various limitations of human cognitive capacities, tries to develop an ‘epistemic ethics,’ which aims at reconciling human rational and intuitive capacities. With the help of the intricate semantics of “Grund” (German for soil, foundation, reason), Broch thus addresses three interrelated philosophical problems: the foundations of knowledge, action, and existence. (JM; in German)