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Exile, Science and BildungWalter Benjamin’s “Secret Germany”

Exile, Science and Bildung: Walter Benjamin’s “Secret Germany” [“It is peculiar [eigen] to philosophical writing that at each turn of phrase it should confront anew the question of representation.” Thus begins the “Epistemo-Critical Preface” to Walter Benjamin’s study of German Baroque drama. “In its final form,” it goes on, it will, to be sure, be doctrine. But it does not lie within the power of mere thought to impart to it such finality. [… ] The part of method in philosophical projects is not reducible to their didactic organization. Which is to say that an esoteric element is peculiar to them that they are unable to discard, forbidden to deny, and that it would be their ruin to extol.1] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Exile, Science and BildungWalter Benjamin’s “Secret Germany”

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Kettler, David; Lauer, Gerhard
Wohlfarth, Irving
Exile, Science and Bildung — Feb 22, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
ISBN
978-1-349-73456-6
Pages
27 –45
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-04596-6_3
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[“It is peculiar [eigen] to philosophical writing that at each turn of phrase it should confront anew the question of representation.” Thus begins the “Epistemo-Critical Preface” to Walter Benjamin’s study of German Baroque drama. “In its final form,” it goes on, it will, to be sure, be doctrine. But it does not lie within the power of mere thought to impart to it such finality. [… ] The part of method in philosophical projects is not reducible to their didactic organization. Which is to say that an esoteric element is peculiar to them that they are unable to discard, forbidden to deny, and that it would be their ruin to extol.1]

Published: Feb 22, 2016

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