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preservation

is the fact that a work needs preservers (i.e. An audience) to bring out its meaning and to receive the light that it sheds on their lives.

A work also needs an audience, or radier 'preservers' Bewahrenden, and 'preservation', Bewahrung, which means: 'Standing in die openness of beings diat happens in die work' (OWA, 55/192). A rock is what it is apart from any onlookers... die purpose of a broom is immanent in it and in any case a broom, like any equipment in good working order, is essentially inconspicuous even when in use, let alone when stored in die cupboard. But a work needs preservers to bring out its meaning and to receive die light that it sheds on their lives. The similarity of (be)wahren, 'to protect, keep', to wahr, Wahrheit, 'true, trudi', is not lost on Heidegger, though the words are etymologically unrelated. (inwood 'heidegger' : 18)

is bringing the reader into affiliation with the truth happening in the work.

‘Preservation’, then, is the opposite of ‘reader response’ in any subjective sense. It does not ‘reduce people to their private experiences, but brings them into affiliation with the truth happening in the work’ (PLT: 68).

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