GRGR(16): Adorno on Reverential Silence

[Peter Petto]

As I was reading the recent issue of Lingua Franca, a quote from Theodor 
Adorno brought our recent discussion of meaningful silences to mind:

>"In America, I was liberated from a certain naive belief in culture," he 
>confessed shortly before his death in 1969. In Europe, he had simply taken 
>for granted "the fundamental importance of the mind -- 'Geist.' ... The 
>fact that this was not a foregone conclusion, I learned in America, where 
>no reverential silence in the presence of everything intellectual prevailed."

It made me wonder what TRP would say about the fundamental importance of 
the mind, wonder what he is saying about it in GR, and wonder whether this 
American/European distinction is valid.