Much of what I have said will be disallowed by defenders of a hermeneutics more conservative than mine; and, doubtless with scorn, by a flourishing radical party, which would not admit that its investigations are…
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Wolfram Eilenberger on Heidegger (& Cassirer) and the uncanny
“The eight days I spent with you remain constantly with me,” Heidegger wrote to his new friend in November. “The suddenness, the apparent uneventfulness of those days, the sureness of the ‘style’ with which one…
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Das Unheimliche
Любопытно было бы разработать основоположенія эстетики и риторики жуткаго, аппаратъ для формальной его поэтики и жанровую классификацію (включая, разумѣется, типологію модальностей и фигуративности), не сводящуюся къ этнографическимъ и интегративнымъ формамъ типа быличекъ или urban legends.…
Jeffrey Kripal (& Bertrand Méheust) on la chose innommable & indetermination
– Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2011) Moreover, and more bizarrely still, they [UFOs. – P.] are mischievously omnipotent in their ability to show themselves to us in quite outrageous ways,…
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Ioan Culianu on nihilism
– The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism (1992) If nihilism is the state that ensues from the “unbuilding” of transcendence and the attitude that pursues transcendence in order to…
Куча мала (2)
As is evident from its meaning and context, Blanchot’s definition recapitulates a central premise of Artaud’s, i.e. that cruelty, rather than being a resource at the disposal of the perpetrator, is an external force to…