Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: Fabeln

Title

en_US Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi: Fabeln

en_US dtv klassik

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Creator

en_US Billen, Josef

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:32Z

en_US 2009-07

en_US 1993

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1993

Abstract

en_US From 13 to 302 one encounters 237 numbered fables under the title Figuren zu meinem ABC-Buch oder zu den Anfangsgründen meines Denkens. Then, after a Nachschrift, there is a Nachlese of some other forty-two fables found in Pestalozzi's writings. I tried several more Pestalozzi fables on this occasion. #46 is called Was der Affe bei der Schlange Gelernt Hat (46). The young ape thinks he learns at last what humility is when he sees a snake crawl. We who know snakes -- including their hidden poison and their leaping attacks -- know that theirs is not humility! In #51, a fool wakes up in the night to find that a piece of coal has fallen among the straw outside the fireplace. He steps on the coal to extinguish it. In an hour the coal breaks out in flames and burns down the whole house (49). In #110, a child asks his father why a cat plays with a caught mouse. The father guesses that the urge to play with blood comes with the first experience of blood-guilt. Pestalozzi theorizes that the experience of considerable butchering and slaughtering of animals gets a person used to killing. One loses one's sensitivity. In ignoble, passionate people the equanimity about killing soon turns to bloodthirstiness. That example may be a clue to what I have read online: Pestalozzi's fables are not for children and they are often difficult. They are indeed his basic thinking but they are often in need of contextualization and explanation. They may be figures of thought more than they are fables.

Identifier

en_US 9783423023238 (br.)

en_US 6865 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82170

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag

en_US Munich

Subject

en_US LB626.F3 1993

en_US Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole