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no t e s introduction: how (not) to do things with doors 1. See Heidegger, Being and Time, 96–97: “The Greeks had an appropriate term for ‘Things’: pragmata—that is to say, that which one has to do with in one’s concernful dealings (praxis). . . . We shall call those entities which we encounter in concern ‘equipment.’ In our dealings we come across equipment for writing, sewing, working, transportation, measurement.” 2. See Hörisch, Wissen der Literatur. 3. For a discussion of the term poetics of knowledge, see Vogl, Poetologien des Wissens. 4. Doderer, “Kleine Vorbemerkung,” 17. 5. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 40. 6. Adorno, “On Subject and Object,” 140. 7. Ibid., 147. 8. The notion of “object agency” has lately been developed in such diverse fields as the sociology of scientific knowledge, anthropological aesthetics, and literary theory. See Latour, “Where Are the Missing Masses?”; Gell, Art and Agency; Brown, “Thing Theory.” 9. Adorno, “On Subject and Object,” 140. 10. Ibid. 11. Latour, “Where Are the Missing Masses?,” 227. For a discussion of the similarities and differences between Adorno and Latour, see Highmore, Ordinary Lives, 67–72. 12. Latour, “Where Are the Missing Masses?,” 235. 13. Ibid., 236. 14. Heidegger, “Thing,” 172; Heidegger, Being and Time, 96. 15. Ibid., 97. 16. Ibid., 107, 105. 17. Ibid., 104. 18. Ibid. 19. Ibid., 102. 20. Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch, 1528. 21. Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen, 136: “Die ‘Tücke’ des Objekts ist ein dummer Anthropomorphismus.” Notes 246 22. In this sense, the belief in the magical powers of malicious objects resembles —in reverse—forms of fetishization. Recently, theories of the fetish have been read as a paradigm for a new and different history of modernity. See Apter and Pietz, Fetishism as Cultural Discourse; Böhme, Fetischismus und Kultur. 23. Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 129. 24. Galen, “Diagnosis and Cure,” 38. 25. Ibid. 26. Recently Latour has expanded his epistemology into the realm of politics . See Latour, Politics of Nature. 27. Lacan, Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 103. 28. Ibid. 29. Foucault, “Technologies of the Self,” 18. 30. See Brewer and Porter, Consumption. 31. Porter, Flesh, 291. 32. Nussbaum, Therapy of Desire. 33. On moral management as psychotherapy, see Porter, “Shaping Psychiatric Knowledge”; Foucault, Madness and Civilization. An important figure in the tradition of mechanical models is John Brown, for whom diseases originate in an imbalance of human excitability. See J. Brown, Elements of Medicine, 126. 34. For a discussion of the relationship between philosophy, anthropology , and medicine, see Riedel, Anthropologie des jungen Schiller; Koschorke, Körperströme und Schriftverkehr. On treatments of the whole human being, see Schings, Ganze Mensch. 35. Foucault, Madness and Civilization, 187–88. 36. Duncan Large gives an account of Germany’s fascination with Sterne. He writes: “The German-speaking world took Sterne to its bosom in the late 1760s in the waning of the late Enlightenment period, and the two have never ever really fallen out since. Sterne has proved somewhat of a man for all seasons, constantly reperceived, reinvented, reappropriated by successive generations of German intellectuals and the broader reading public.” See Large, “‘Sterne-Bilder,’” 70. 37. See Michelsen, Laurence Sterne. 38. Uwe C. Steiner, although not mentioning Doderer, proposes a similar genealogy of the “literary knowledge of the thing,” from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. See Steiner, “Widerstand im Gegenstand,” 245: “Es gibt also ein Wissen vom Ding, das (noch) kein wissenschaftliches bzw. literaturwissenschaftliches ist. Das erhärtet ein Blick auf die epische Tradition . Ich beziehe mich hauptsächlich auf jenen Traditionsstrang, der sich mindestens zu Laurence Sterne und Jean Paul zurückverfolgen lässt und der 1878 kulminiert, als der gewesene Hegelianer Friedrich Theodor Vischer seinen bis in die 1920er Jahre eminent erfolgreichen Roman Auch Einer veröffentlicht.” 39. Sterne, Life and Opinions, 646. 40. See Fleming, Pleasures of Abandonment. 41. Sterne, Life and Opinions, 184. 42. Ibid., 2. [184.72.135.210] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 00:28 GMT) Notes 247 43. Ibid., 182–83. 44. Jean Paul, “Über die natürliche Magie.” 45. Müller, Jean Pauls Ästhetik, 81–86. 46. Cf. Tismar, Gestörte Idyllen. 47. For a discussion of the ambiguous status of the term pharmakon, see Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy.” 48. Vischer, Auch Einer, 509. 49. Jacques Derrida, “My Chances,” 26. 50. Brown, Sense of Things, 5. 51. The quote here is from ibid., 4. 52. Vischer, “Mein Lebensgang,” 511. 53. For a discussion of Jean Paul’s influence on nineteenth-century aesthetics in general and Vischer in particular...