In fact, "problematisieren" was coined by Friedrich Nietzsche after the
traumatic episode in the streets of Turin which led to his final breakdown.
He remonstrated with a coachman flogging a poor. old. tired. horse. who
asked him if he had a problema with that & raised his whip threateningly.
"Problema" screamed N., "Problemata" (he was a classicist of course) & fell
to the ground in an apoplexy of philosophical enlightenment. The fragment he
wrote on the subject of "alles problematisieren" was later suppressed by his
viciously anti-Semitic sister (though Rudolf Pannwitz had brief access to
the philosopher's papers & remarks on it in his ground-breaking pre-war "N.,
the Horses of Reason and the Problemata") & only re-discovered later in this
century by certain Continental philosophers before being eagerly pounced
upon by the theory-avid members of Anglo-Saxon sociology departments & their
natural allies, university bureaucrats. So your theory of the ancient
"problemat", while mildly amusing & suggestive, David, is regrettably beside
the point.
Martin
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