Theory Is Like a Surging Sea

Theory Is Like a Surging Sea Michael Munro.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Munro, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Poetry.
Philosophy, Modern > 21st century.
poetry.
Philosophy, Modern
Poetry
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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