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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Munro, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.