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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2020
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Dichtung und Wahrheit
- 'Without this nothing thinks' : the enigma of the active intellect
- Nearer to you than the sea
- Vertigo, beatitudo : Spinoza and philosophy
- The idea of prose
- Appendix A. Theses on aesthetics as first philosophy
- Appendix B. On exactitude in non-library science
- Coda : on the riddle of history solved.