Theory Is Like a Surging Sea /
In a 1917 letter to Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin writes, "Theory is like a surging sea." This small book takes more than its title from that line--it takes that line as a point of departure in Erich Auerbach's sense, an Ansatzpunkt, as a compositional principle so that what follow...
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Col·lecció: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Sumari: | In a 1917 letter to Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin writes, "Theory is like a surging sea." This small book takes more than its title from that line--it takes that line as a point of departure in Erich Auerbach's sense, an Ansatzpunkt, as a compositional principle so that what follows can be read in its entirety as a gloss on the remainder of Benjamin's sentence: "Theory is like a surging sea, but the only thing that matters to the wave [...] is to surrender itself to its motion in such a way that it crests and breaks." That motion, in the pages to follow, takes up in its sweep two threads: it folds an episodic meditation on the negative and the problematic into a series of singular interrogations exemplary of the positive being of the problematic, the objective being of problems and questions, in a movement of implication and explication between poetry and philosophy in the tradition of what's come to be known as theory. Theory is like a surging sea because it's as part of a revolutionary tradition that it crests and breaks. |
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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (104 pages): illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780692493908 |
| Accés: | Open Access |