1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003236589707536

Autore

Gimbutas, Marija

Titolo

The language of the goddess / Marija Gimbutas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Thames and Hudson, 1989

Edizione

[1 ed]

Descrizione fisica

XXIII, 388 p. : quasi tutte ill. (alcune color.) ; 27 cm.

Soggetti

Linguaggio - Simbologia

Simbologia - Linguaggio

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524904803321

Autore

Munro M (Michael)

Titolo

Theory Is Like a Surging Sea / Michael Munro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (74 pages)

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Poetry

Philosophy, Modern - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.