LEADER 02526oam 22004214a 450 001 9910524904803321 005 20240424225745.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000534138 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00058750 035 $a(OCoLC)1181774492 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87171 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000534138 100 $a20200729e20202015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheory Is Like a Surging Sea$fMichael Munro 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (74 pages) 311 $a0-692-49390-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aDichtung 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aPoetry 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern$y21st century 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern 676 $a190 700 $aMunro$b M$g(Michael),$0984397 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524904803321 996 $aTheory Is Like a Surging Sea$93083729 997 $aUNINA