Alexander Gelley
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262564
- eISBN:
- 9780823266562
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262564.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, ...
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In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” This book examines the figurative status of sleeping and awakening within the allegorical structure of The Arcades Project and in Benjamin’s thought more broadly. For Benjamin, memory is not antiquarian: it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. The motif of awakening involves a qualified but crucial performative intention that was central to Benjamin’s undertaking. Benjamin’s passages are not just the Paris arcades: they refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his writings. In tracing these corridors of thought, the book treats many of Benjamin’s most important works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura and image, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.Less
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” This book examines the figurative status of sleeping and awakening within the allegorical structure of The Arcades Project and in Benjamin’s thought more broadly. For Benjamin, memory is not antiquarian: it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. The motif of awakening involves a qualified but crucial performative intention that was central to Benjamin’s undertaking. Benjamin’s passages are not just the Paris arcades: they refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his writings. In tracing these corridors of thought, the book treats many of Benjamin’s most important works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura and image, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.
Alcino J. Silva, Anthony Landreth, and John Bickle
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199731756
- eISBN:
- 9780199367658
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199731756.003.0009
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Systems, Techniques
Science and its products play a central role in the culture and economics of modern societies, but very little has been done to develop systematic, objective studies of science and its practises. ...
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Science and its products play a central role in the culture and economics of modern societies, but very little has been done to develop systematic, objective studies of science and its practises. This chapter argues for the study of strategies designed to evaluate and improve scientific practices, such as experiment planning. A key step will be the development of measures to gauge the efficacy of different approaches to experiment planning. These measures would be used to test the efficacy of proposed developments, including the Framework and Integrations principles introduced in this book.Less
Science and its products play a central role in the culture and economics of modern societies, but very little has been done to develop systematic, objective studies of science and its practises. This chapter argues for the study of strategies designed to evaluate and improve scientific practices, such as experiment planning. A key step will be the development of measures to gauge the efficacy of different approaches to experiment planning. These measures would be used to test the efficacy of proposed developments, including the Framework and Integrations principles introduced in this book.
Stephen J. Davis
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780300149456
- eISBN:
- 9780300206609
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300149456.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
Chapter 2 turns to the textual history of the “Childhood Deeds.” The first half identifies problems related to our conceptions of how texts functioned in the ancient world and the way that modern ...
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Chapter 2 turns to the textual history of the “Childhood Deeds.” The first half identifies problems related to our conceptions of how texts functioned in the ancient world and the way that modern assumptions about textual unities, titles, and genre have constrained scholars in their engagement with this set of infancy stories. This analysis offers a more textured account of ancient reading practices as involving a complex intersection of written texts and oral performance. The second half of the chapter then traces the history and formation of the “Childhood Deeds” as a text, beginning with its early oral and written transmission in the form of individual literary units or story types, and continuing with the editing and collection of those stories into a larger narrative schema. This analysis is grounded in the close examination of two kinds of evidence: the witness of manuscripts and the history of external citation.Less
Chapter 2 turns to the textual history of the “Childhood Deeds.” The first half identifies problems related to our conceptions of how texts functioned in the ancient world and the way that modern assumptions about textual unities, titles, and genre have constrained scholars in their engagement with this set of infancy stories. This analysis offers a more textured account of ancient reading practices as involving a complex intersection of written texts and oral performance. The second half of the chapter then traces the history and formation of the “Childhood Deeds” as a text, beginning with its early oral and written transmission in the form of individual literary units or story types, and continuing with the editing and collection of those stories into a larger narrative schema. This analysis is grounded in the close examination of two kinds of evidence: the witness of manuscripts and the history of external citation.
Carlton Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813161051
- eISBN:
- 9780813165516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813161051.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Military History
Chinn was curious about the extent of the cave system of Chinn’s Cave House, so a spelunking team went as far back as possible. The spelunkers and Chinn never finished fully exploring, though in 1966 ...
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Chinn was curious about the extent of the cave system of Chinn’s Cave House, so a spelunking team went as far back as possible. The spelunkers and Chinn never finished fully exploring, though in 1966 they put electricity through parts of the cave. The jovial Chinn was now around sixty and doing very well; he received the highest award a civilian can get from the navy, the Navy Meritorious Public Service Citation. He also lost some weight. He found several odd guns in the Kentucky Military Museum in Frankfort and continued his consultation work for the military.Less
Chinn was curious about the extent of the cave system of Chinn’s Cave House, so a spelunking team went as far back as possible. The spelunkers and Chinn never finished fully exploring, though in 1966 they put electricity through parts of the cave. The jovial Chinn was now around sixty and doing very well; he received the highest award a civilian can get from the navy, the Navy Meritorious Public Service Citation. He also lost some weight. He found several odd guns in the Kentucky Military Museum in Frankfort and continued his consultation work for the military.
John T. Hamilton
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226572826
- eISBN:
- 9780226572963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226572963.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
A close reading of the somewhat fraught relationship between Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann reveals further aspects of the incarnational metaphor. Particular attention is given to the way both ...
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A close reading of the somewhat fraught relationship between Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann reveals further aspects of the incarnational metaphor. Particular attention is given to the way both writers differ in their use of literary citation. Whereas Kant employs language as a speaker, Hamann employs language as a listener.Less
A close reading of the somewhat fraught relationship between Immanuel Kant and Johann Georg Hamann reveals further aspects of the incarnational metaphor. Particular attention is given to the way both writers differ in their use of literary citation. Whereas Kant employs language as a speaker, Hamann employs language as a listener.
Alexander Gelley
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262564
- eISBN:
- 9780823266562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262564.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
What we have in “Das Passagen-Werk” is a massive collection of fragments, tantalizing but unwieldy, a collection that could give rise to a number of alternative models. It cannot be called a Werk, ...
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What we have in “Das Passagen-Werk” is a massive collection of fragments, tantalizing but unwieldy, a collection that could give rise to a number of alternative models. It cannot be called a Werk, although it was undoubtedly conceived in view of one. A number of commentators have proposed versions of the intended work, but it would be mistaken to suggest that Benjamin’s own conception might be recovered or reconstituted. When Benjamin writes, “To write history, then, means to cite history,” he is not talking about the dependence of the history writer on any source or archive but rather about his ability to wrest what materials he needs and model them for his purposes. Thus citing involves a dynamic intervention into the temporal process that activates a past in the present: citing as an inciting Through this focus on citation, Benjamin stresses, first, the isolate, fragmentary form of the historical datum, its resistance to assimilation into a narrative mold; then, its “monadic” structure, that is, its inclusiveness and complexity; and finally its “acceding to legibility,” its capacity to prepare the modality of its reception and thus to bring about a determinate effect.Less
What we have in “Das Passagen-Werk” is a massive collection of fragments, tantalizing but unwieldy, a collection that could give rise to a number of alternative models. It cannot be called a Werk, although it was undoubtedly conceived in view of one. A number of commentators have proposed versions of the intended work, but it would be mistaken to suggest that Benjamin’s own conception might be recovered or reconstituted. When Benjamin writes, “To write history, then, means to cite history,” he is not talking about the dependence of the history writer on any source or archive but rather about his ability to wrest what materials he needs and model them for his purposes. Thus citing involves a dynamic intervention into the temporal process that activates a past in the present: citing as an inciting Through this focus on citation, Benjamin stresses, first, the isolate, fragmentary form of the historical datum, its resistance to assimilation into a narrative mold; then, its “monadic” structure, that is, its inclusiveness and complexity; and finally its “acceding to legibility,” its capacity to prepare the modality of its reception and thus to bring about a determinate effect.
