| Susan Buck-Morss - 1979 - 356 sider
...which the rulers stepped "over those who are lying prostrate."38 Hence he claimed: There is never a document of civilization which is not at the same...barbarism. And just as such a document is not free from barbarism, neither is the process of transmitting it from one generation to another. A historical... | |
| Janet Sternburg - 1980 - 240 sider
..."barbaric." Adorno's objection to poetry after the Holocaust echoes Walter Benjamin's insistence that "there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." After the Holocaust or annihilation, no poem can avoid the implication of its actuality as one more... | |
| Eugene Lunn - 1984 - 348 sider
...great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not...also taints the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another. A historical materialist therefore dissociates himself from it as far as... | |
| Sander L. Gilman - 1985 - 298 sider
...arc free of this taint, as Benjamin goes on to observe: "There is no document of civilization • 239 which is not at the same time a document of barbarism....such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another" (256). Benjamin sees himself,... | |
| Jürgen Habermas - 1985 - 248 sider
...the procession. They are called cultural treasures. . . . There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And...such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to the other." [Benjamin, Illuminations... | |
| Jurgen Habermas - 1990 - 460 sider
...'"Space of Experience' and 'Horizon of Expectation,'" in Futures Past, p. 276. 26. Ibid., p. 279. 27. "There is no document of civilization which is not...such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another" (Thesis VII). 28. Sec... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Myra Jehlen - 1986 - 472 sider
...genealogical understanding challenges those of us professionally devoted to transmitting a culture: "There is no document of civilization which is not...such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another." Benjamin's ideal figure... | |
| Richard Leppert, Susan McClary - 1989 - 226 sider
...great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism .'S3 The barbarism of which I speak is embodied in cultural chauvinism. Perhaps no one expressed that... | |
| Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 sider
...constituted bourgeois "subject", but also calls to mind Walter Benjamin's astringent observation that there is "no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism".13 Leggatt's reading of the play, which conforms to the underlying theory of comedy proposed... | |
| Stephen Eric Bronner, Douglas Kellner - 1989 - 332 sider
...great minds and talents who have created them, but also to the anonymous toil of their contemporaries. There is no document of civilization which is not...such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another. A historical materialist... | |
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